Pakistan faces international travel ban next month, if fails to curb Polio

HeadlinesPakistan faces international travel ban next month, if fails to curb Polio

ISLAMABAD: International travel ban will be imposed on Pakistan in next month, if it would not succeed in elimination of Polio.

The World Anti-polio Monitoring Board has convened a meeting in London, between May 7 to 9, to ponder over international travel ban against Pakistan.

Earlier, the World Health Assembly and World Anti-polio Monitoring Board issued ultimatum to the last regime that if Polio will not be eliminated from Pakistan till May this year, then an international travel ban can be imposed on it.

A representative of the World Anti-polio Monitoring Board has reached on five-day tour in Pakistan to examine the situation.

This representative will visit Karachi, Islamabad, Lahore, Peshawar, and Quetta for meeting with concerned officials to get details of progress on elimination of Polio.

Later on, the representative will prepare a detailed final report on the issue and would present it to the World Anti-polio Monitoring Board for further action.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that fewer Polio cases have been reported this year in comparison to the last year but still Pakistan has failed miserably to eliminate Polio completely.

Pakistan will have to make stern arrangements for eradication of Polio during this year to get a certificate of Polio-Free Country in 2018 from World Health Assembly, warned the WHO.

After imposition of travel ban, all Pakistanis will have to get a certificate of polio vaccination for travelling abroad.

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