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Islamabad, Jul 20 (EFE).- Pakistan resumed its polio vaccination campaign on Monday, after the immunization program was suspended four months ago due to the coronavirus crisis.Some 32,000 people will be a part of the campaign to administer polio drops to children under the age of five, especially in the regions where the prevalence of the virus is very high, such as Karachi (south) and Quetta (west), spokesperson of the country's polio eradication program, Mohamed Safdar, told EFE.FOOTAGE OF THE POLIO VACCINATION CAMPAIGN IN KARACHI, PAKISTAN.
The bodies of polio workers are transferred to a morgue after a series of attacks that left four vaccinators dead in Eastern Afghanistan. IMAGES
Jalalabad (Afghanistan), Mar 30 (EFE/EPA).- (Camera: Ghulamullah Habibi)Three female workers, who were a part of a nationwide polio vaccination drive, were shot dead Tuesday by unidentified gunmen in Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar province, officials said.The assailants killed the workers in two separate incidents around 10 am in Jalalabad while carrying out a door-to-door vaccination drive.FOOTAGE OF THE FUNERAL.
Karachi/Peshawar, Feb 3 (EFE/EPA).- Pakistan has launched its COVID-19 vaccine, with frontline health care workers first to receive the jabs. Pakistan began its COVID-19 vaccination campaign on Tuesday, in a televised ceremony in which Prime Minister Imran Khan oversaw the first vaccine from China's Sinopharm administered to a health worker in Islamabad. Pakistan on Monday received the first batch of 500,000 doses of the Sinopharm vaccine. (Camera: REHAN KHAN/BILAWAL ARBAB). SHOT LIST: COVID-19 VACCINATION CAMPAIGN IN KARACHI AND PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN.
Peshawar, Feb 3 (EFE/EPA).- Pakistan has launched its COVID-19 vaccine, with frontline health care workers first to receive the jabs. Pakistan began its COVID-19 vaccination campaign on Tuesday, in a televised ceremony in which Prime Minister Imran Khan oversaw the first vaccine from China's Sinopharm administered to a health worker in Islamabad. Pakistan on Monday received the first batch of 500,000 doses of the Sinopharm vaccine. (Camera: BILAWAL ARBAB). SHOT LIST: COVID-19 VACCINATION CAMPAIGN AT LADY READING HOSPITAL MTI PESHAWAR, IN PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN.