ISLAMABAD: National Ministry for Health on Friday reported another polio case in the country, saying a 10-year-old child from North Waziristan district of the KP province has been diagnosed with the virus.
A 10-month-old infant from union council Ghulam Khan in North Waziristan was discovered to have the poliovirus, according to a representative for the National Ministry of Health.
“In the ongoing year, as many as 17 cases of poliovirus have been reported from North Waziristan,” the spokesman said, adding that the national tally of virus-affected children has reached 20 in 2022.
It should be noted that the National Polio Lab (NPL) has recently detected polio virus in sewage water samples collected from five cities, including Peshawar, Swat, Rawalpindi, Bannu and South Waziristan.
This year, poliovirus has been detected in 27 climatic samples as well, sources said.
They added that the NPL detected poliovirus in 17 climatic samples collected from KP, eight from Punjab and one from Sindh and Islamabad. The lab has detected the virus in sewage water samples collected from five cities, sources added.
In the current year, NPL has detected the Polio virus for the eighth time in samples collected from Bannu, the fourth time in Peshawar, the third time in Rawalpindi and Swat, whole for the first time in South Waziristan.
