Special polio drive ends as cricket stars pay tribute to polio workers.

LAHORE -- Punjab has wrapped a week-long speAcial polio campaign in 13 districts of Punjab, which was aimed at building immunity of children in high-risk disAtricts. On Sunday, polio teams visited house-to-house and vaccinated leftAover children who had missed polio drops in the last one week due to variAous reasons. In the last push on SunAday, large number of guests and missed children were vaccinated in three Punjab districts including Lahore, Rawalpindi and Faisalabad. In the last six days of the campaign, polio teams have vaccinated more than 11.5 milAlion children in all the 13 districts. In Lahore, more than two million children have been vaccinated. In Rawalpindi and Faisalabad, 0.9 million and 1.5 milAlion children have been vaccinated in six days of the campaign respectively. In a statement issued on Sunday, the last day of the campaign, head of the polio porgramme in Punjab Khizer AfAzaal Ch asserted that all objectives of the campaign have been achieved. He reiterated that the government aimed to build immunity of children through the campaign so that polio virus transAmission was interrupted. The EOC head...

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