KARACHI: Two more polio cases surfaced in Karachi on Wednesday increasing the total number of cases in the country to 164.
The first case was confirmed from Union Council number 8 of Gadap Town where a 10-month old boy, Umar, son of Akramullah, tested positive for the virus. This is the fourth case from the same union council.
In the second case, a 22-month old girl, Hajra, daughter of Amir Khan, tested positive from Union Council number 7 of Orangi Town. This is the second case from this union council.
So far this year, 115 cases have been reported from Federally Administered Tribal Area (Fata), 29 from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, 14 from Sindh, three from Balochistan and two from Punjab.
Dr Durre Naz Jamal, Deputy Programme Manager Sindh for Extended Programme on Immunisation (EPI), said that these cases were expected and more cases were likely to surface.
Due to security reasons, Jamal said 100% target was not being achieved in high security areas during vaccination drives.
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Why the so called jihadis and Mullas Pakistan are against polio drops when almost all other Muslim nations administer Polio drops to their children they are spoiling the future of the Nation.
No doubt Polio is such a dangerous virus and it is disabling next generation, whatever our ruler did in past, It is in response, Skeel Afridi and kidnapping of children in Karachi link with polio team. Bad experience of people result of increase in Polio cases.
Word in the first line is Polio and not Police.
Maybe this whole article was typed on a mobile or the person was from Karachi and police was the more common word among the two. :)