A seven-day-long anti-polio drive kicked off on Monday in as many as 94 union councils across Lahore. The special anti-polio drive has been launched in the wake of three polio cases detected in the provincial capital. As per details, the drive would continue till May 19 in the selected union councils. Over 2,500 polio teams have been constituted to ensure smooth and secure conduction of the campaign. The polio teams would carry out a door-to-door campaign to administer anti-polio drops to children aged up to five years. Earlier on May 2, a new case of polio surfaces in Lahore, increasing the number of reported cases this year in Punjab’s capital to three. The polio virus was reportedly found in a two-year-old child from Iqbal Town. Until now, as many as 10 polio cases have been detected across Pakistan in 2019. Three cases were reported each from Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and tribal areas while one was confirmed in Sindh.