In pictures: Pakistan resumes anti-polio drives in the time of Covid-19

The disruption of the campaign had raised fears of a spike in polio cases in Pakistan.

Reuters 25 Jul, 2020

Wearing face masks and gloves, vaccinators earlier this week resumed an anti-polio drive that had been halted since March due to the coronavirus outbreak, seeking to reach at least 800,000 children in five days.

The disruption of the campaign had raised fears of a spike in polio cases in Pakistan, which, along with neighbouring Afghanistan is just one of two countries in the world where the disease remains endemic, according to officials.

Vaccinators wear protective masks as they get their temperature checked, during an anti-polio campaign, in a low-income neighbourhood in Karachi, July 20. — Reuters

A boy gets his finger marked, after he is administered polio vaccine drops, during an anti-polio campaign, in Karachi, July 20. — Reuters

A boy receives polio vaccine drops in Karachi, July 20. — Reuters

Vaccinators wear protective masks as they sanitise their hands before administering polio vaccine drops, during an anti-polio campaign in Karachi. — Reuters

Boys wear protective masks as they head to a madressah during an anti-polio campaign in Karachi, July 20. — Reuters

Header image: A girl receives polio vaccine drops during an anti-polio campaign in Karachi, July 20. — Reuters

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Abbas shah

Jul 25, 2020 11:48pm

Good move ,but stop free movement s from Afghanistan into Pakistan ,otherwise very difficult to control it.

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S.L.Kaavan

Jul 26, 2020 10:51am

Polio vaxx now counts as Pakistan's two-front war on diseases--Polio and Covid-19. I hope you succeed along with Afghanistan!

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M. Emad

Jul 26, 2020 01:03pm

60 new Polio cases reported so far this year in Pakistan (26 July 2020).

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Dr.Quantum

Jul 26, 2020 01:13pm

Pakistan is many decades behind other south Asian countries in many fields .. bitter truth

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Rafiq Memon

Jul 26, 2020 06:24pm

please continue the good work of providing polio vaccine to every child

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A shah

Jul 26, 2020 06:24pm

Pakistan can learn from more progressive nations such as Zimbabwe, Somalia and BD

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Dr. Salaria, Aamir Ahmad

Jul 26, 2020 06:25pm

Without proper, on-time and regular administration of its vaccine, Polio virus could prove to be more dangerous, menacing and vicious than the current rapidly increasing, ever expanding and almost unstoppable coronavirus pandemic.

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