There has been one more confirmed incidence of polio in Pakistan this year, increasing the total to 22 cases. A two-and-a-half-year-old child from the Pishin district in the province of Balochistan has been diagnosed with the virus, according to the National Institute of Health.
This most recent occurrence represents the fifteenth case of polio in 2024 to be documented in Balochistan alone.
With the goal of immunizing 30 million children under five, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif initiated a special anti-polio campaign earlier this year in 115 districts across the country.
A little over 286,000 polio workers were sent out to deliver anti-polio drops to kids door to house.
But three members of the Anti-Terrorist Force (ATF), who were stationed to guard against polio, were killed in a recent terrorist attack on the Zhob-DI Khan National Highway.
