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Afghanistan launches anti-polio campaign
By Xinhua Published: Dec 22, 2022 08:20 AM
A health worker gives a dose of the polio vaccine to a child during a vaccination campaign against polio in Kabul, Afghanistan, Dec. 21, 2022. Afghanistan's Ministry of Public Health has launched a campaign to vaccinate around 7 million children under five against polio, said a statement released by the ministry on Tuesday.(Photo: Xinhua)

A health worker gives a dose of the polio vaccine to a child during a vaccination campaign against polio in Kabul, Afghanistan, Dec. 21, 2022. Afghanistan's Ministry of Public Health has launched a campaign to vaccinate around 7 million children under five against polio, said a statement released by the ministry on Tuesday.(Photo: Xinhua)


 
A health worker gives a dose of the polio vaccine to a child during a vaccination campaign against polio in Kabul, Afghanistan, Dec. 21, 2022. Afghanistan's Ministry of Public Health has launched a campaign to vaccinate around 7 million children under five against polio, said a statement released by the ministry on Tuesday.(Photo: Xinhua)

A health worker gives a dose of the polio vaccine to a child during a vaccination campaign against polio in Kabul, Afghanistan, Dec. 21, 2022. Afghanistan's Ministry of Public Health has launched a campaign to vaccinate around 7 million children under five against polio, said a statement released by the ministry on Tuesday.(Photo: Xinhua)


 
A health worker gives a dose of the polio vaccine to a child during a vaccination campaign against polio in Kabul, Afghanistan, Dec. 21, 2022. Afghanistan's Ministry of Public Health has launched a campaign to vaccinate around 7 million children under five against polio, said a statement released by the ministry on Tuesday.(Photo: Xinhua)

A health worker gives a dose of the polio vaccine to a child during a vaccination campaign against polio in Kabul, Afghanistan, Dec. 21, 2022. Afghanistan's Ministry of Public Health has launched a campaign to vaccinate around 7 million children under five against polio, said a statement released by the ministry on Tuesday.(Photo: Xinhua)


 
A health worker gives a dose of the polio vaccine to a child during a vaccination campaign against polio in Kabul, Afghanistan, Dec. 21, 2022. Afghanistan's Ministry of Public Health has launched a campaign to vaccinate around 7 million children under five against polio, said a statement released by the ministry on Tuesday.(Photo: Xinhua)

A health worker gives a dose of the polio vaccine to a child during a vaccination campaign against polio in Kabul, Afghanistan, Dec. 21, 2022. Afghanistan's Ministry of Public Health has launched a campaign to vaccinate around 7 million children under five against polio, said a statement released by the ministry on Tuesday.(Photo: Xinhua)


 
Afghanistan's Ministry of Public Health has launched a campaign to vaccinate around 7 million children under five against polio, said a statement released by the ministry on Tuesday.

Aimed at eradication of the crippling disease among children in 26 out of the country's 34 provinces, the three-day campaign will conclude on Wednesday, the statement added.

Afghanistan, according to the statement, is nearing to become a polio-free country as so far this year only two cases of polio have been registered against four cases in 2021, while the war-torn country registered 56 polio cases in 2020.