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Pakistan and Afghanistan are the only countries, which are still struggling to eradicate wild poliovirus. All vaccination campaigns in Pakistan were suspended in April due to the COVID\u201019 outbreak, leading 40 million children to miss out on polio vaccination. Like the climate crisis, the COVID\u201019 pandemic could be regarded as a child\u2010rights crisis because it could have life\u2010threatening impact over children, who need immunization, now and in the long\u2010term. Delays in polio vaccination programs might not have immediate impact but, in the long\u2010term, the increase in polio cases in Pakistan could result in the global export of infections. Therefore, healthcare authorities must intensify their efforts to track and vaccinate unvaccinated children in countries like Pakistan and Afghanistan. Polio vaccination campaigns need to resume immediately, so we suggest applying social distancing measures along with standard operating procedure to flatten the transmission curve of COVID\u201019. Furthermore, the concurrent emergence of cVDPV2 means that tOPV should temporarily be used for primary immunization. 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