{"id":83407,"date":"2025-08-18T12:01:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T07:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=83407"},"modified":"2025-08-18T12:37:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T07:37:28","slug":"polio-tally-hits-21-with-fresh-cases-reported-in-sindh-and-kpk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/health\/polio-tally-hits-21-with-fresh-cases-reported-in-sindh-and-kpk\/","title":{"rendered":"Polio tally hits 21 with fresh cases reported in Sindh and KP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI: National Emergency Operations Centre (NEOC) reported one case of <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/health\/pakistan-confirms-three-more-polio-cases-tally-reaches-17-in-2025\/\">polio<\/a> from Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) each, tally reaches 21 during this year.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan will start a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nih.org.pk\/\">anti-polio<\/a> campaign from September 1, 2025, to eradicate polio cases from the country.<\/p>\n<p>The fresh cases were reported from the Lower Dir area of district Kohistan in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the Badin area of Sindh.<\/p>\n<p>The NEOC urged parents to give their children the polio vaccination to guarantee a bright future and to finish the injection course on time.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the Polio virus was identified in a 10-month-old child in the Tank district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, according to the National Institute of Health (NIH).<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"64\" data-end=\"312\">The presence of the polio virus has brought the total number of polio cases across the country to 18 this year.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"314\" data-end=\"520\">The National Polio Emergency Operations Centre is making a new plan to overcome the challenges faced in the campaign in South Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"314\" data-end=\"520\">Officials said efforts are being stepped up to overcome logistical challenges and enhance the quality of immunization campaigns in high-risk locations.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"314\" data-end=\"520\">The centre reaffirmed its commitment to eradicating polio via long-term efforts and personalized interventions in at-risk locations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI: National Emergency Operations Centre (NEOC) reported one case of polio from Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) each, tally reaches 21 during this year. Pakistan will start a new anti-polio campaign from September 1, 2025, to eradicate polio cases from the country. The fresh cases were reported from the Lower Dir area of district Kohistan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":83408,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[23684],"class_list":["post-83407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-polio-cases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83407"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83410,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83407\/revisions\/83410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}