Tuesday, 30 April 2019

Killings of police and polio workers halt vaccine drive in Pakistan

Deaths follow wave of rumours and a hoax video intended to derail final push to eradicate the disease

A federal government campaign to vaccinate more than 40 million children under five against polio in Pakistan has been suspended following a series of attacks on workers and police over the past week.

On 23 April a police officer responsible for protecting polio workers was gunned down in Bannu. The same day, a polio worker was injured with a knife in Lahore by a man refusing to allow his child to be vaccinated, citing a recent hoax video that claimed children were becoming ill after the immunisations.

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from World news | The Guardian http://bit.ly/2J4I1qn

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