KARACHI: According to the National Emergency Operations Centre (EOC), Pakistan has confirmed three additional instances of the wild poliovirus, increasing the country’s total number of polio cases this year to 59.
A week after a case was reported in Dera Ismail Khan’s Drazanda tehsil, where a 27-month-old kid was diagnosed with poliovirus, the EOC released an updated national polio case count on Monday.
According to the EOC, the recently reported instances were found in Kashmore, the Keamari district of Karachi, and Dera Ismail Khan in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Dera Ismail Khan has reported eight polio cases this year, with the most recent instance making headlines. The EOC says the newly discovered case in Keamari is the third this year and the first in Kashmore.
