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Pakistan considers tough punishment for parents refusing polio vaccine for their children

01 Oct 2023

Authorities in one Pakistan province are turning to a controversial new tactic in the decades-long initiative to wipe out polio: prison. Last month, the government in Sindh introduced a...

Polio virus found in London sewage, but risk of infection considered low

22 Jun 2022

Polio virus has been detected in sewage samples in the British capital, the first sign since the 1980s that the virus could be spreading in the country, but no cases...

Pakistan launches five-day anti-polio campaign, reports lowest number of virus cases since March 8

07 Jun 2021

Gulf Today Report Pakistan launched a campaign on Monday to vaccinate millions of children against polio, as new coronavirus cases decline in the country, officials said. The five-day campaign will...

Pakistan launches five-day anti-polio campaign amid surge in coronavirus

29 Mar 2021

Pakistan on Monday launched a five-day vaccination campaign against polio despite facing another surge of coronavirus cases, the second anti-polio drive in 2021 as the country struggles to eradicate the...

Pakistan launches anti-polio drive as coronavirus cases decline

15 Aug 2020

Pakistani health officials on Saturday launched a seven-day vaccination campaign against polio as part of efforts aimed at eliminating the crippling disease amid a steady decline in fatalities and infections...

Pakistan to resume anti-polio campaign next week

19 Jul 2020

Pakistani authorities reported 1,579 new COVID-19 cases, the lowest number in more than a month, as health officials plan to resume a much-awaited nationwide anti-polio campaign next week. ...

Hawaiian reef case could limit Clean Water Act

26 Nov 2019

Greg Stohr, Tribune News Service A Supreme Court dispute involving a coral reef off Hawaii could impose major limits on the US Clean Water Act, giving mines and coal-fired power...

Gender inequality is just not a ‘women’s issue’

21 Oct 2019

Shaffaq Mohammed, The Independent Last month brought to light the scale of threats towards women in public life. Sparked by a debate over Boris Johnson’s rhetoric regarding violence towards women...

2020 hopefuls seek crackdown on white nationalism

14 Sep 2019

Casey Tolan, Tribune News Service The gunman who killed 20 people in El Paso, Texas, posted his white supremacist manifesto on the right-wing forum 8chan. The man who massacred 51...

Pakistan demands Facebook remove polio vaccine misinformation

03 May 2019

Pakistan urged Facebook to remove harmful polio-related content from the social networking site on Friday, saying it was jeopardising eradication initiatives and putting the lives of vaccinators at risk. ...

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