Fresh polio case identified in Afghanistan: official

A health worker gives polio vaccine to a child during a vaccination campaign in Kandahar, southern Afghanistan, April 1, 2019. A two-year-old child was reported to have been affected by poliovirus despite receiving anti-polio vaccination in Afghanistan's southern province of Uruzgan, a local official said Monday. The ongoing insurgency and conflicts have been hindering the efforts to stamp the infectious disease out in the mountainous country. (Xinhua/Sanaullah Seaim)