Over 43.3 million children up to five years of age in Pakistan have been vaccinated against polio in the first five days of the anti-polio campaign across the country, the National Emergency Operations Centre (NEOC) said on Sunday.

More than 22.9 million children have received the oral polio vaccine in Punjab, while approximately 10.2 million children were immunised in Sindh province.

More than 6.1 million children have been vaccinated in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, over 2.5 million in Balochistan, around 4,43,000 in Islamabad, and nearly 1.27 million children in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).

The NEOC urged parents to ensure that every child under five years of age receives the polio vaccine, the outlet added.

Despite global efforts to eradicate the virus, challenges such as security issues

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