{"id":17017,"date":"2023-12-24T09:52:50","date_gmt":"2023-12-24T09:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=17017"},"modified":"2023-12-24T09:52:50","modified_gmt":"2023-12-24T09:52:50","slug":"polio-vaccination-campaign-begins-in-14-provinces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2023\/12\/polio-vaccination-campaign-begins-in-14-provinces\/","title":{"rendered":"Polio vaccination campaign begins in 14 provinces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KABUL (SW) &#8211; The Ministry of Public Health announced that a sub-campaign for implementing the polio vaccine in 14 provinces in the south, southeast, east, and northeast is set to commence on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">This campaign would continue for four days, the ministry has stated on Sunday, December 24.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">According to the statement, the sub-campaign for the implementation of the polio vaccine in Kunar, Nangarhar, Nuristan, and Laghman, which are facing a grim risk of the polio virus, commenced yesterday and will continue until the end of the week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The ministry added that a total of 8,800,000 children under the age of ten would be vaccinated in this round.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">One day prior, the World Health Organization (WHO) voiced concern about the potential for the polio increase coinciding with the return of Afghan refugees from Pakistan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) &#8211; The Ministry of Public Health announced that a sub-campaign for implementing the polio vaccine in 14 provinces in the south, southeast, east, and northeast is set to commence on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":17018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,1,984,218,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-0_swnen","category-news","category-health","category-afghanistan","category-headline"],"views":78,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17019,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17017\/revisions\/17019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}