Peshawar:
The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Downstairs at the National Institute of Health (NIH) has confirmed two new poliovirus cases from South Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, from District Tank and North Waziristan.
According to a statement issued here on Tuesday, the recent polio cases include a 16-month-old girl from Union Council Mullazai, district tank and a 24-month-old girl from Union Council Miran Shah-3, District North Waziristan.
With these detections, the total number of polio cases in Pakistan in 2025 reached 23-inclusive 15 cases kp, six from Sindh and one each from Punjab and Gilgit-Baltistan.
Despite significant progress, the continued detection of polio cases, especially in southern KP, remains a serious problem.
However, national and provincial emergency operations (EOCs) are taking all possible measures to ensure the implementation of high quality vaccination campaigns, the statement added.
