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Tens of thousands of Kandahar kids to miss polio drops

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KANDAHAR CITY (Pajhwok): A three-day polio vaccination campaign was launched in southern Kandahar province on Monday, but children in five districts could not be administered the drops due to certain reasons.

Shah Walikot, Khakrez, Ghorak, Meyanshin and Maroof are districts where the polio vaccination could not take place. In Kandahar, positive polio cases reached five this year.

Public Health Director Abdul Qayyum Pukhla, who inaugurated the campaign, said 567,000 children under the age of five years would be administered the polio drops in Kandahar during . . .

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