Ariana: The polio vaccination campaign has been put on hold indefinitely in Nangarhar province following the shooting of three female vaccinators on Tuesday. The women were gunned down in two separate incidents on Tuesday morning in Jalalabad city. Click here to read more (external link).
Ayaz Gul VOA News March 30, 2021 ISLAMABAD – Unknown gunmen have shot dead three female anti-polio workers in Afghanistan, one of the two countries in the world along with its neighbor Pakistan, where the crippling children’s disease remains endemic. Tuesday’s violence came on the second day of a five-day polio immunization drive, this year’s
Tolo News: The current fiscal year’s first polio vaccination campaign began on Monday, and officials said that Afghanistan ranks nearly at the top globally of reported poliovirus cases in the past nine years, second only to Pakistan. UNICEF officials said that 56 new cases of poliovirus were reported in Afghanistan in 2020. Click here to
Tolo News: The Ministry of Public Health on Thursday reported 48 new positive cases of COVID-19 out of 1,896 samples tested in the last 24 hours. The Health Ministry stated that the cumulative total of known COVID-19 cases is 54,939, the total number of reported deaths is 2,399, and the total number of recoveries is
Ariana: More than 3.5 million children have been deprived of anti-polio vaccinations due to restrictions imposed by the Taliban in several provinces, the Ministry of Public Health claimed Saturday. The Ministry stated that the Taliban’s restrictions on the house-to-house vaccination campaign has increased from three to ten percent of homes in the last three years.
Al Jazeera: Afghanistan has launched a nationwide campaign to administer the polio vaccine to nearly 10 million children under the age of five, the nation’s Public Health Ministry announced. Click here to read more (external link).
Tolo News: The Ministry of Public Health on Wednesday reported 256 new positive cases of COVID-19 out of 2,405 samples tested in the last 24 hours. The data by the ministry shows that the cumulative number of total cases is now 49,970, the number of total reported deaths is 2,017, and the total number of
Tolo News: The Ministry of Public Health on Monday reported 283 new positive cases of COVID-19 out of 1,300 samples tested in the last 24 hours. The data by the ministry shows that the cumulative number of total cases is now 46,498, the number of total reported deaths is 1,779, and the total number of
At a time when growing numbers of people are shunning vaccines, the polio vaccine proves that they work. As VOA’s Carol Pearson reports, despite setbacks and a coronavirus pandemic, the world is making headway in eliminating the crippling disease.
Tolo News: The Ministry of Public Health on Thursday reported 68 new positive cases of COVID-19 out of 372 samples tested in the last 24 hours. The cumulative number of total cases is now 39,616, the number of total reported deaths is 1,470, and the total number of recoveries is 33,058. Click here to read