The World Health Organization said that, five new wild poliovirus cases reported in Nangarhar, however, there have been 32 positive environmental samples of polio found so far this year in Afghanistan.

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Afghanistan has confirmed the five polio cases in Nangarhar province.

Third case of polio has been reported in Nangarhar, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’s public health ministry said.

With the end of COVID-19 and mpox as public health emergencies of international concern, polio remains the only official global health emergency. The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom said.

The Embassy of Japan in Afghanistan has announced that it will provide more than twenty one million dollars for the implementation of vaccination programs for Afghan women and children, as well as providing water and sewage facilities for school students.

Afghanistan’s acting public health minister departed Kabul for a six-day visit to Qatar.

The polio vaccination campaign will start tomorrow (Monday, January 23, 2023) in 13 provinces of Afghanistan, which is the first vaccination campaign this year.

The second round of the polio vaccination campaign has actually started in Herat province and will continue until Thursday of this week. In this campaign, 277,000 children under the age of five will be vaccinated.

Since the beginning of the year, two positive cases of Polio have been recorded in Afghanistan.

The global polio eradication effort and its success will depend on the progress in the two remaining countries, Pakistan and Afghanistan. The World Health Organization said.

The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs of the United Nations has said that polio has reached its lowest level in Afghanistan with only one case recorded last year.

The Ministry of Public Health said that, Polio vaccine sub-campaign has started, today, in 28 provinces.

 The Afghan health officials on Monday launched an extended sub-national immunization campaign to give polio immunity vaccination dose to 8.5 million children under 5 years old, the Afghan Ministry of Public Health said Monday.

Two fresh polio cases had been detected in Afghanistan's southern Uruzgan province, the Ministry of Public Health said on Monday.

A two-year-old child was reported to have been affected by poliovirus despite receiving anti-polio vaccination in Afghanistan's southern province of Uruzgan, a local official said Monday.

Local Afghan Taliban leaders are hindering global efforts to end polio, but Afghanistan and Pakistan must continue their fight to “get to zero” cases, the philanthropist Bill Gates said on Monday.

Nine children were diagnosed with polio virus in southern Kandahar province last year, making it the world’s worst place in terms of the deadly disease.

Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) in a joint venture with its health partners started the subsidiary round of anti-polio campaign in 10 provinces started from today (Monday).

Government on Monday rolled out campaign to vaccinate 6.4 million children against polio. Vaccination teams will visit 6.4 million children under the age of five in 27 high-risk provinces, mainly in Kandahar and Nangarhar.