Islamabad:
The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio -Duching at the National Institute of Health has confirmed Pakistan’s 74. Wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) case from 2024.
The latest case was reported from Shikarpur starting on December 15, 2024. This marks the second polio case from Shikarpur in 2024.
Pakistan has reported a total of 74 cases in 2024. Of these, 27 are from Balochistan, 23 from Sindh, 22 from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, and one from Punjab and Islamabad.
So far, by 2025, only a polio case from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has been reported.