Two more polio cases were confirmed on Saturday, making it six cases in two days.
According to the Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication in Islamabad, cases of wild poliovirus type-1 (WPV1) were reported in Sindh’s districts of Sanghar and Mirpurkhas.
Pakistan has reported 39 cases of poliovirus in ten months of 2024. Of them, 20 were reported from Balochistan, 12 from Sindh, five from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and one each from Punjab and Islamabad.
The newest victims are a girl and a boy, officials said, adding that genetic sequencing of the cases was underway.
“These are the first polio cases from Mirpurkhas and Sanghar this year,” the official added.
The prevalence of the virus had already been confirmed in the two neighbouring districts as several environmental samples collected from there tested positive for WPV1 since April, the official said.
“The intense virus transmission and increase in polio cases is indicative of the harm that children suffer when they miss opportunities for vaccination,” he added. (Dawn)
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