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		</div><p>Pakistani authorities launched this year’s first nationwide anti-polio campaign even as coronavirus infections surge.</p>
<p>About 150,000 health workers are taking part in the five-day, anti-polio drive to inoculate 22.4 million children under age five, according to a statement issued by Shahzad Beg, the coordinator for polio programme.</p>
<p>The previous campaign took place weeks ago when Pakistan witnessed a decline in Covid-19 cases.</p>
<p>Authorities hope the latest campaign will help making Pakistan a polio-free nation.</p>
<p>Last year, Pakistan reported only one polio case from the country’s southwestern Baluchistan province.</p>
<p>Pakistan and Afghanistan are the only countries in the world where polio remains endemic and the disease can cause partial paralysis in children.</p>
<p>Pakistan for 25 years has been carrying out regular inoculation campaigns in which health workers go door-to-door to give the polio drops to children.</p>
<p>Most of the workers are women, as they can get better access to mothers and children.</p>
<p>Pakistani authorities have stepped up security for polio teams.</p>
<p>In recent years, Pakistani militants have targeted polio teams and police escorting them, claiming falsely that the anti-polio drive is part of a Western conspiracy to sterilise children or collect intelligence.</p>
<p>These attacks increased after it was revealed that a fake hepatitis vaccination campaign was used as a ruse by the CIA in the hunt for al Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.</p>
<p>Bin Laden was killed by US commandos in 2011 in Pakistan.</p>
<p>Monday’s latest anti-polio push comes amid a steady increase in cases of coronavirus.</p>
<p>In the past 24 hours, Pakistan registered more than 7,000 Covid-19 cases, one of the highest number of daily infections since June 2020.</p>
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