KABUL (Pajhwok): A four-day national polio immunization campaign, the first in 2022, was launched yesterday targeting 9.9 million children aged below five years across the country.
The last campaign in November 2021 delivered polio drops to 8.5 million children under the age of five while the December campaign vaccinated more than eight million children. In total, 2.6 million children have now been vaccinated for the first time in more than three years.
2021 was the year with lowest ever polio transmission in Afghanistan, providing an unprecedented opportunity to interrupt transmission of wild poliovirus and achieve eradication . . .
