The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health has confirmed the detection of the 42nd Wild Poliovirus Type-1 (WPV1) case in Pakistan.
On Tuesday,29 October 2024, the lab confirmed detection of Type-1 Wild Poliovirus in a child from Nowshera District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
This is thefirst polio case from Nowshera and the42nd case from Pakistan at large this year. So far, 21 cases have been reported from Balochistan, 12 from Sindh, seven from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and one each from Punjab and Islamabad.
