Polio campaign suspends in KP five-district amid coronavirus outbreak

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Polio campaign suspends

Emergency Operations Center (EOC) has suspended anti-polio campaign in five districts of Khyber Pakhunkhwa due to coronavirus outbreak.

While the polio eradication campaign run in KP districts, Charsadda, Mardan Nowshera, Sawabi and Mohmand.

The EOC says that polio campaign has been suspended in connection with rising of coronavirus cases in the country. So far, Pakistan has reported 301 cases of COVID-19. The first two deaths from the virus were reported in Khyber Pakhuntkhwa on Wednesday night.

The campaign aimed to vaccinate 1,330,000 children in the province against polio.

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