Anti-polio drive in Attock from Jan 11.

Attock -- Around 0.3 million children up to the age of five years will be administered polio drops in Attock district during five-days anti-polio campaign to be started on January 11.

Health officials said the drive was launched on the directives of provincial authorities after a vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (VDPV2) case was reported in the district in July.

The drive was initially for five days to administer polio drops to 296,662 children across the district under the supervision of representatives from provincial and federal health authorities and the World Health Organisation (WHO).

'The five-day polio vaccination drive should be conducted under strict preventive measures of Covid-19', they said.

Deputy Commissioner Attock, Ali Anan Qamar while chairing a meeting to review arrangements of the drive urged that 'no touch' vaccination method should be adopted

to maintain distance between the front line worker and children.

He said health department teams must ensure to administer polio drops to every child upto five years of age, adding, parents should...

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