NEW DELHI( Reuters)-Hundreds of millions of children in South Asian are suffering because their schools have been closed because of the coronavirus but they lack online devices and connections for remote learning, UNICEF said on Thursday. Authorities should prioritise the safe reopening of schools because even before the pandemic, almost 60% of children in the densely populated region were unable to read and understand a simple text by the age of 10, the U.N. children's agency said." School clos

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The drive aims to reach about 10 million children, according to Dr.... Hamid Jafari, head of polio eradication for the WHO’s eastern Mediterranean region. More than 3.3 million children had previously “ remained inaccessible to vaccination campaigns, ” according to the statement announcing the drive.... “ Frontline health workers should never be a target of violence.” Around the same time of the shootings, there was an explosion at the city’s regional hospital, near the compound where the vacc

IN June last year, we visited Pakistan, one of two countries where wild poliovirus is still endemic.... The recent independent surveillance review reassured us that Pakistan has one of the most developed polio surveillance systems in the world, capable of detecting poliovirus circulation — and it does.... Cases of children with flaccid paralysis are reported from across the country....