{"id":21621,"date":"2020-08-12T16:00:04","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T07:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/aug\/12\/polio-vaccinations-resume-in-pakistan-and-afghanistan-after-covid-19-delays"},"modified":"2020-08-12T16:00:04","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T07:00:04","slug":"polio-vaccinations-resume-in-pakistan-and-afghanistan-after-covid-19-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21621","title":{"rendered":"Polio vaccinations resume in Pakistan and Afghanistan after Covid-19 delays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fight to eradicate disease getting \u2018back on track\u2019 after surge in cases due to pause in vaccination campaigns<\/p>\n<p>Polio vaccination campaigns have resumed in Afghanistan and Pakistan \u2013 the last two polio-endemic countries in the world \u2013 after a \u201csurge\u201d in cases.<\/p>\n<p>The pandemic halted campaigns in both countries in March and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unicef.org\/press-releases\/polio-vaccination-campaigns-resume-afghanistan-and-pakistan-after-covid-19\">confirmed cases<\/a> have now reached 34 in Afghanistan and 63 in Pakistan \u2013 where cases are being recorded in areas of the country previously free of the disease.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/aug\/12\/polio-vaccinations-resume-in-pakistan-and-afghanistan-after-covid-19-delays\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fight to eradicate disease getting \u2018back on track\u2019 after surge in cases due to pause in vaccination campaignsPolio vaccination campaigns have resumed in Afghanistan and Pakistan \u2013 the last two polio-endemic countries in the world \u2013 after a \u201csurge\u201d in c&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1503,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,1069,59,346,914,60,900,61,565,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-global-development","category-health","category-infectious-diseases","category-pakistan","category-polio","category-south-and-central-asia","category-vaccines-and-immunisation","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1503"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21622,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21621\/revisions\/21622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}