Pakistan has informed the Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) for Polio that the Covid-19 pandemic is one of the reasons for a surge in polio cases in the country as it had hampered routine immunisation and campaigns against the crippling disease.

The top world polio body has been informed that though the government had been considering initiating anti-polio activities, due to a high-risk perception of Covid-19 it would require immense hard work to gain the willingness of communities to open their doors to vaccinators.

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