North Waziristan (HRNW) Health authorities on Tuesday confirmed that another case of the crippling poliovirus has been detected in the country. This takes the year’s toll to 18.
The latest victim was a three-month-old boy from Ramzak in North Waziristan district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP).
So far in 2022, as many as 18 cases of polio virus have been reported. Of these, 16 cases have emerged from North Waziristan district while the remaining two have been confirmed in Lakki Marwat district of the province.
Officials at the National Institute of Health (NIH), while confirming the case, said that the child did not have a history of receiving oral polio vaccine.