{"id":4977,"date":"2020-09-07T11:06:19","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T11:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/?p=4977"},"modified":"2020-09-07T11:06:19","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T11:06:19","slug":"balochistan-reports-another-polio-case-national-tally-jumps-to-69","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/2020\/09\/07\/balochistan-reports-another-polio-case-national-tally-jumps-to-69\/","title":{"rendered":"Balochistan reports another polio case, national tally jumps to 69"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>QUETTA: Another polio case has been reported in Balochistan on Monday,\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>According to well-informed sources within the health department, the case was reported in district Pashin of Balochistan, where a 15-month old baby girl was confirmed battling with the crippling disease.<\/p>\n<p>With the latest detection of poliovirus case in Balochistan, the number in the province so far this year has reached to 18, while national tally has jumped to 69.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bsac bsac-clearfix bsac-post-inline bsac-float-center bsac-align-center bsac-column-1\">\n<div id=\"bsac-312359-289090585\" class=\"bsac-container bsac-type-custom_code \" data-adid=\"312359\" data-type=\"custom_code\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The samples of the infected child were taken on August 20.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, a new case of poliovirus was detected in Balochistan. The 34-month-old boy had been detected infected with the poliovirus in Pashin\u2019s Union Council, Ali Zai.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<span class=\"post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arynews.tv\/en\/africa-polio-un-virus-who-arcc\/\">Africa declared polio-free after decades of campaigning: WHO<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>On Aug 15, Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa and Co-Chair of the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation Bill Gates, in a telephonic conversation, had discussed Pakistan\u2019s Covid-19 response and resumption of polio eradication\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FwhvCuK2HC4\">campaign<\/a>\u00a0said the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Bill Gates appreciated the Pakistan Army for supporting government efforts to contain the coronavirus pandemic and Pakistan\u2019s success against Covid-19 despite resource constraint.<\/p>\n<p>They discussed safe start of polio eradication campaign and efforts needed for this purpose, said the ISPR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QUETTA: Another polio case has been reported in Balochistan on Monday,\u00a0 According to well-informed sources within the health department, the case was reported in district Pashin of Balochistan, where a 15-month old baby girl was confirmed battling with the crippling disease. With the latest detection of poliovirus case in Balochistan, the number in the province [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4978,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4977","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4979,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4977\/revisions\/4979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}