geneva the world health organization who has extended travel restrictions to pakistan for another three months as polioendemic countrythe un agency extended travel restrictions on the south asian country by three months due to it being listed among the last polioendemic countries daily pakistan reportedthe 30th polio ihr emergency committee noted the completion of the surveillance review in pakistan which found a high likelihood that the current wild poliovirus wpv1 detection is validthe key challenge in pakistan remains the persistently missed children in the core reservoirs regarding which progress is being made through innovative approaches such as deploying evening vaccination teams health camps tracking of missed and not available children after the sia is completed dealing with refusals before the campaign starts and using provaccination influencers who saidaside from pakistan the un committee stated that afghanistan failed to eradicate polio fully and may be responsible for the viruss global spreadthe thirtieth meeting of the emergency committee under the international health regulations 2005 ihr on the international spread of poliovirus was convened by the who directorgeneral on november 3 with committee members and advisers attending via video conference supported by the who secretariatthe emergency committee reviewed the data on wild poliovirus wpv1 and circulating vaccine derived polioviruses cvdpv technical updates were received about the situation in the following state parties afghanistan china guinea bissau mauritania nigeria pakistan senegal and ukraine