Pakistan launches new anti-polio drive

Pakistani authorities have launched a new nationwide anti-polio drive amid a spike in new cases among children, health officials said.

It is the sixth such campaign this year and will last for five days, aiming to inoculate children under the age of five in high-risk areas.

Pakistan regularly launches polio campaigns despite attacks on workers and police assigned to inoculation drives.

Militants falsely claim the vaccination campaigns are a Western conspiracy to sterilise children.