{"id":277578,"date":"2024-09-22T15:56:48","date_gmt":"2024-09-22T07:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=277578"},"modified":"2024-09-22T16:03:58","modified_gmt":"2024-09-22T08:03:58","slug":"pakistan-reported-three-more-polio-cases-bringing-total-to-21-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=277578","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Reported Three More Polio Cases, Bringing Total To 21 This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>ISLAMABAD, Sept 22 (NNN-APP) &#8211; Pakistan reported three new cases of polio, in the country&#8217;s Balochistan, Sindh, and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces, bringing the total number of the disease-infected children to 21, since the beginning of this year, the health ministry said in a statement, yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health, confirmed that, wild poliovirus type 1 was found in all three children, who have been paralysed by polio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Expressing concern at the escalating number of children affected by the disease, the Prime Minister&#8217;s Focal Person for Polio Eradication, Ayesha Raza Farooq, said that, the government is determined to end the disease in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Every new case is a child with a name, a face, and a life that is forever altered by the crippling impact of polio,&#8221; she said, adding, the disease is silently spreading in some areas of Balochistan and Sindh, where parents do not administer the polio vaccine to their kids.&#8211; NNN-APP   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD, Sept 22 (NNN-APP) &#8211; Pakistan reported three new cases of polio, in the country&#8217;s Balochistan, Sindh, and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces, bringing the total number of the disease-infected children to 21, since the beginning of this year, the health ministry said in a statement, yesterday. The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":277580,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,198],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277578"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=277578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277579,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277578\/revisions\/277579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/277580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=277578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=277578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=277578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}