The well being ministry on Saturday confirmed a brand new case of poliovirus in a 9-month-old youngster from Okarzai district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP).
This brings the overall variety of polio instances reported in Pakistan this 12 months to 6.
Along with the confirmed case, poliovirus has additionally been detected in 20 environmental samples collected from 12 districts throughout the nation.
The presence of poliovirus in environmental samples signifies that the virus is circulating locally and poses a severe danger to youngsters below the age of 5.
The well being ministry has urged mother and father to make sure that their youngsters are up-to-date on all really useful polio vaccinations.
Polio is a preventable illness, and vaccination is the one method to defend youngsters from this life-threatening sickness.
Pakistan launched a week-long nationwide polio vaccination marketing campaign on Monday, because the nation stays considered one of solely two world wide the place the paralysing virus nonetheless exists.
The most recent polio eradication marketing campaign is focusing on greater than 44 million youngsters throughout a lot of the nation, in addition to in Pakistani-administered Kashmir.
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