• Thatta reports the latest polio case, says the Pakistan Polio program.
• Two other cases are reported from Punjab, KP.
• 2024 then 74 polio -cases nationwide; Balochistan had the most.

Karachi: Pakistan reported his sixth poliovirus case from the year from Sindh’s thatta district on Saturday, the Pakistan Polio program confirmed.

The National Institute of Health’s (NIH) Regional Reference Laboratory has verified the case marking the fourth polio case from SINDH this year. One was reported from Punjab and the other was reported by Khyber Pakhtunkhwa earlier.

By 2024, a total of 74 polio cases were reported across Pakistan, where Balochistan registered 27 cases, Sindh 23, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 22, and one case each from Punjab and Islamabad.

Pakistan is one of the two polio-endemical countries in the world together with Afghanistan, and the number of cases each year had significantly decreased in the country until the recent increase in cases.

Polio -s cases over Pakistan’s provinces

Polio is a crippling disease without cure, and the completion of the routine vaccination for all children under five gives them great immunity to this horrible disease.

The first nationwide polio campaign in 2025 reached over 45 million children earlier this month, a statement from the Pakistan Polio program said.

It added that a FIPV UP CAMPAIGN IN THE QUETTA DIVISION AND KARACHI was held between 20 and 28 February, vaccinating about 0.9 million children with injectable and oral polio vaccines for an additional increase in immunity.

In addition, a targeted vaccination activity was also held in 104 union councils bordering Afghanistan or had Afghan refugee camps this week to reduce the risk of cross -border and internal poliovirus transfer, vaccinated over 0.6 million children.

The polio program encouraged all parents to have their children vaccinated against polio at every opportunity to keep them protected from this devastating disease.