"Right now we can't say what impact the four-month suspension will have on our fight against polio, but one thing is sure - that the current year is going to be worse than the previous years in regard to the number of new cases," Zulfiqar Babakhel, a spokesman for the country's vaccination authority, told AFP. As well as the pause to the campaign, a further 2.8 million newborns also missed out on polio vaccinations, he said.
AFP