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World in Progress: Fighting Covid 19 in Pakistan

Bernd Musch-Borowska
September 24, 2020

Decades or experiences with fighting Polio are now prooving helpful in the fight against Covid 19 in Pakistan.

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The global fight against polio has seen huge success in the last few decades. Thanks to decades of vaccination campaigns in all countries, today the crippling disease is almost extinct. Only in Pakistan and Afghanistan, are there still some active cases. While it will still take some effort to eradicate polio in Pakistan, the Covid19 pandemic has been posing new challenges for the country's health system. But experiences of the polio campaign are now prooving vital for fighting coronavirus. And soon, the clinical tests for a new Chinese vaccine will start in Pakistan

Report: Bernd Musch-Borowska  Presenter: Kathleen Schuster