UT Khader exercises franchise in Mangaluru
Mangaluru: Mangalore constituency's Congress candidate UT Khader along with his wife Lamis Khader stood in the queue and cast his vote at polling booth number 100 in Boliyar village at 7.25 on Saturday morning.
Food and Civil Supplies Minister UT Khader visited Ullal Dargah early morning and offered prayers at the Juma Masjid. Later he attended Sayyed Madani Dargah for ziarat and offered prayers at the shrines of his father UT Fareed and mother D. Naseema Fareed on the Dargah premises. He then visited various polling booths.
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Pakistan reports two more polio cases; Total tally now 52
ISLAMABAD: At least two more cases of poliovirus were reported in Pakistan, taking the number of infections to 52 so far this year, a report said on Friday.
“The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health has confirmed the detection of two more wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases in Pakistan," an official statement said.
The fresh infections — a boy and a girl — were reported from the Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
“Genetic sequencing of the samples collected from the children is underway," the statement read. Dera Ismail Khan, one of the seven polio-endemic districts of southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has reported five polio cases so far this year.
Of the 52 cases in the country this year, 24 are from Balochistan, 13 from Sindh, 13 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and one each from Punjab and Islamabad.
There is no cure for polio. Only multiple doses of the oral polio vaccine and completion of the routine vaccination schedule for all children under the age of five can keep them protected.
