The campaign to stamp out polio in one of its last haunts will begin again next week, four months after it was halted due to the coronavirus.Eradication efforts will resume in Pakistan as health officials worry the pause in operations meant .Pakistan will begin targeted vaccination campaigns from July 20, building to nationwide sweeps from September onwards. Districts included in the first round are Faisalabad, Attock, South Waziristan, and parts of Karachi and Quetta, with a target to vaccinate almost 800,000 children under the age of five.Afghanistan will also begin its own vaccinations...…The campaign to stamp out polio in one of its last haunts will begin again next week, four months after it was halted due to the coronavirus.Eradication efforts will resume in Pakistan as health officials worry the pause in operations meant .Pakistan will begin targeted vaccination campaigns from July 20, building to nationwide sweeps from September onwards. Districts included in the first round are Faisalabad, Attock, South Waziristan, and parts of Karachi and Quetta, with a target to vaccinate almost 800,000 children under the age of five.Afghanistan will also begin its own vaccinations...WW…

Pakistan's government has endorsed a plan to help tackle the country's locust plague by encouraging people to catch the voracious pests and sell them as chicken feed.Imran Khan, prime minister, has said he wants to extend a pilot project which saw farmers paid by the kilogram to catch the insects so they could be made into protein-rich poultry food.The scheme would provide much needed income to farmers in some of the poorest parts of the country.Pakistan is facing as marauding swarms have caused widespread damage in the Middle East, East Africa and South Asia.The country has already seen...…Pakistan's government has endorsed a plan to help tackle the country's locust plague by encouraging people to catch the voracious pests and sell them as chicken feed.Imran Khan, prime minister, has said he wants to extend a pilot project which saw farmers paid by the kilogram to catch the insects so they could be made into protein-rich poultry food.The scheme would provide much needed income to farmers in some of the poorest parts of the country.Pakistan is facing as marauding swarms have caused widespread damage in the Middle East, East Africa and South Asia.The country has already seen...WW…