Two environmental samples taken in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province have been tested for wild poliovirus, the fitness ministry said.
Wild poliovirus type 1 discovered in sewage samples taken from Naray Khuwar and Larama collection sites in Peshawar on May 9 and 16, respectively, the ministry was quoted as saying by news firm Xinhua.
The remote viruses are genetically similar to the organization of viruses circulating in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province, he added.
Like the two endemic countries, Pakistan and Afghanistan are united in their fight against polio and both countries will continue to eliminate it, Health Minister Abdul Qadir Patel said in a statement.
According to a recent report by the World Health Organization, all new polio cases reported in Pakistan since January 2021 come from seven polio-endemic districts in southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
In 2021, there was one documented case in Pakistan and 84 in 2020.
In 2019 there were 147 cases.
Last year there were 20 cases.
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