Overview
- Pakistan’s October 13–19 campaign is mobilising more than 400,000 health workers to reach about 45 million children door to door, according to the National Emergency Operations Centre.
- Police say a constable named Maqsood was shot dead in Nowshera on Wednesday, a day after Levies constable Abdul Kabeer was killed in Swat while guarding vaccinators; search operations are underway and leaders have issued strong condemnations.
- Sindh launched a province-wide push targeting over 10.6 million children with roughly 80,000 health workers and 21,000 security personnel, while Lahore aims to vaccinate more than 2.2 million children and Haripur plans to reach about 160,000.
- Punjab authorities reported vaccinating more than 5.2 million children on the first day, with field monitoring, digital tracking and teams deployed at hospitals and transit points to catch children on the move.
- NEOC reports 27 polio cases in Pakistan so far this year, with environmental detections persisting and recurrent issues such as vaccine refusals and an estimated 830,000 missed children per round undermining progress.