{"id":20901,"date":"2024-06-03T03:54:09","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T03:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=20901"},"modified":"2024-06-03T04:01:06","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T04:01:06","slug":"nationwide-polio-vaccination-campaign-to-immunize-11-2-mln-afghan-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2024\/06\/nationwide-polio-vaccination-campaign-to-immunize-11-2-mln-afghan-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Nationwide polio vaccination campaign to immunize 11.2 mln Afghan children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"line-height: 19.2pt;background: white\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\">KABUL (SW) &#8211; The organization Polio Free Afghanistan has announced that a nationwide polio vaccination campaign commences on Monday across Afghanistan. <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 19.2pt;background: white\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\">The organization shared this update on its official X account but did not specify the number of children who will receive the vaccine in this round.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 19.2pt;background: white\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\">However, Abdul Qodus Baryalai, head of the Polio Eradication Operations Center at the Ministry of Public Health, told Salam Watandar that the campaign will last for four days.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 19.2pt;background: white\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\">He further mentioned that the campaign aims to vaccinate 11.2 million children under the age of five across the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 19.2pt;background: white\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\">&#8220;The campaign starts across Afghanistan on Monday; approximately 11.2 million children will be vaccinated,&#8221; said Baryalai.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0in;line-height: 19.2pt;background: white\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\">This marks the fourth round of polio vaccination in Afghanistan since the beginning of this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0in;line-height: 19.2pt;background: white\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\">Afghanistan and Pakistan remain the only countries where polio has not yet been eradicated.<\/span><\/p>\n<h6><em><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) &#8211; The organization Polio Free Afghanistan has announced that a nationwide polio vaccination campaign commences on Monday across Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":17932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,9,984,218,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-soceity","category-news","category-health","category-afghanistan","category-headline"],"views":48,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20901","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=20901"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20903,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20901\/revisions\/20903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}