Taliban agrees to do door-to-door polio vaccination drive in Afghanistan | Asianet Newsable

The United Nations announced to begin a nationwide house-to-house polio vaccination campaign next month in the Taliban-led Afghanistan. Slated to start November 8, the house-to-house campaign will be the country’s first in over three years to reach all children in Afghanistan, according to a news release from UNICEF, the UN children’s agency. The agency also hailed the new Taliban government for agreeing to lift a ban on such drives. Taliban military leaders had banned door-to-door visits in 2018, after accusing vaccination teams of acting as spies to gather intelligence for air strikes and special forces raids on Taliban fighters. This polio campaign synchronized with neighbouring Pakistan’s immunization drive in December, aims at reaching around 10 million children under the age of 5 across the country, including more than 3 million in remote and previously inaccessible areas. Watch this video to know more. #Taliban #Afghanistan #Polio 🔊 LIKE ➡ SHARE ➡ SUBSCRIBE For More Updates: English: https://newsable.asianetnews.com/ Hindi: https://hindi.asianetnews.com/ Malayalam: https://www.asianetnews.com/ Kannada: https://kannada.asianetnews.com/ Tamil: https://tamil.asianetnews.com/ Telugu: https://telugu.asianetnews.com/ Bengali: https://bangla.asianetnews.com/ Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AsianetNewsa ... Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AsianetNewsEN Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ann.newsable/ ➡ If you like our video, give us a thumbs up and subscribe to our channel to get the daily dosage of news, entertainment, sports and more.

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