ET: ISLAMABAD: Originating from Pakistan, the crippling polio virus has now made its way into Egypt after China.
Following the export of the deadly virus to the Middle Eastern country, the Prime Minister’s Polio Monitoring and Coordination Cell, along with its international partners the World Health Organisation (WHO) and Unicef, on Monday directed all the provincial governments and the federal administration to immediately establish polio vaccination counters inside international departure lounges at all airports across the country.
Pakistan is struggling to eradicate the virus and has become a threat to all other countries, which have been declared polio free.
Recently two sewage samples collected from the Al Salam and Al Haggana areas of the Cairo district, when examined in a laboratory, had resemblance to a strain discovered in the sewage water tested in the Sukkur district of Sindh.