Polio — Pakistan
In what is being seen as a setback for the government’s efforts to eliminate poliovirus in the country, 2 new cases of poliovirus have surfaced in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, increasing the total of this year’s [2019] cases to 26, ARY News reported on [Thu 20 Jun 2019].
Well-informed sources within the health ministry say the 2 cases have been reported from 2 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa districts. One of them was confirmed from a stool sample of a 21-month old baby girl of Wazir tehsil [sub district] of
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