Another polio case has surfaced from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa increasing the number of polio cases during the current year to 57 in the province. The Emergency Operations Centre (EOC), Coordinator Abdul Basit said the fresh case has surfaced from Sarai Naurang area of Lakki Marwat district where a nine-month-old child has been affected by polio. Abdul Basit said that the affected child was not given even a single dose of anti-polio vaccine during the nine months after his birth.

The samples of the child were sent to library tests where it was confirmed that the child has been infected by polio virus. With the emergence of new polio case, the toll in KP has mounted to 57 in KP and 77 in Pakistan.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2019