Polio vaccination drive continues.

LAHORE -- Polio teams are going door to door to vaccinate children as the ongoing special polio eradication drive entered its second day on Tuesday.

On the first day of the campaign, more than three million children were vaccinated in 12 districts where the campaign is being held.

In Bhakkar, more than 120,000 children were vaccinated on the first day of the campaign. In Dera Ghazi Khan, Faisalabad and Lahore, 256,000, 353,000, and 438,000 children were vaccinated, respectively.

In Layyah, 139,000 children were vaccinated, while in Mianwali, 108,000 children received the vaccine. In Multan and Muzaffargarh, 326,000 and 336,000 children were vaccinated, respectively. The teams vaccinated 143,000 children in Rajanpur, 216,000 in Rawalpindi, 368,000 in Rahim Yar Khan and 343,000 in Sheikhupura.

Khizer Afzaal, the head of the polio programme in Punjab, said the campaign was being held in the affected districts of the province. He said some districts where the virus was detected in the last six months had been included in the campaign, including Lahore, Rawalpindi and Faisalabad.

Additionally, other districts are considered vulnerable due to high-risk mobile population movement. 'The intermittent detection of the virus in environmental samples proves that Punjab is at risk of imported virus circulation,' he said.

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