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Punjab wraps up special polio drive

Our Correspondent
Monday, May 06, 2024

LAHORE: Punjab has wrapped up special polio campaign in 10 high risk districts with polio eradication programme head in Punjab calling upon districts to ensure submission of transparent data on time.

On Sunday the campaign was wound up in the province with the coverage of more than 8.9 million children.

The process of data collection was still under way till the filing of the report. Lahore topped the list of most vaccinated children with over 2.1 million children inoculated in the first six days. Rawalpindi followed with more 8.6 million vaccinations. Data of seventh day was still being compiled till the filing of the story. Districts included in the sub-national polio campaign were divided into two categories.