ISLAMABAD: Authorities in Pakistan struggled to contain the spread of polio among the country's population in 2019, recording a five-year high of new cases amid vaccine boycotts and attacks on health workers.
A boy receiving polio vaccine drops by anti-polio vaccination workers at a booth outside a hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan. Authorities in Pakistan on Tuesday struggled to contain the spread of polio among the country's population in 2019, recording a five-year high of new cases amid vaccine boycotts and attacks on health workers.- Reuters
The number of reported cases of the crippling disease hit 117 this year, a senior official from the national polio eradication program said on Tuesday.
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