More than 34 million children in Pakistan were successfully immunised against polio during last week's national vaccination round, health officials have said.
"We had nearly 98 percent coverage - a first in drive," Dr Javed Iqbal, national polio campaign co-ordinator for the World Health Organisation (WHO), in Quetta, was quoted as saying by IRIN, the UN information unit," Iqbal added.
The WHO national campaign cell reported nation-wide coverage of 97.7 percent, with 34.1 million children under the age of five successfully vaccinated, a result praised by Unicef, one of three partners involved in the immunisation effort, along with WHO and the government.