KARACHI: Another new polio case has been reported in Sindh province from Jacobabad district on Saturday.
According to the polio emergency operation center Pakistan, with the new polio case detected in Sindh, the total tally of cases across the country reached to 37 this year. The virus has been confirmed in a three-year-old girl in the Jacobabad region.
The first case of this year from the province was exposed on 25th January, when the virus was detected in a four-year-old child in the Sujawal area. The case was reported in a 3.5-year-old child in village Yousuf Jatt of Union Council Kothi.
Last month, two polio cases surfaced in Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Both Sindh and KP had reported two more new cases of polio. Moreover, global polio eradication campaigns were also suspended in March for the first time in three decades amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The total number of polio cases in Pakistan last year stood at 136, in which 92 cases were diagnosed from KP, followed by Sindh (25 cases), Balochistan (11 cases) and Punjab (8 cases).
Polio is a highly infectious disease caused by the poliovirus mostly affecting children under the age of five. It invades the nervous system and causes paralysis or even death. Unfortunately, Pakistan is one of only three countries in the world, alongside Afghanistan and Nigeria, affected by poliovirus.
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