A province-wide polio vaccination drive will begin in 24 districts of Sindh, including Karachi, from today with the aim to immunise nearly 6 million children under the age of five against the crippling poliovirus, the provincial Emergency Operation Centre (EOC) for polio eradication said on Sunday. The campaign will continue for seven days in Karachi and five days in other districts of Sindh, including Dadu, Jacobabad, Kambar, Larkana, Shikarpur, Sukkur, Sujawal and Thatta. “The target is 5,973,287 children, out of which 2.4 million children are in Karachi,” an official of the EOC said, adding that more than 50,000 frontline workers...
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