Five new cases of polio were reported from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and one from Sindh on Thursday, taking the national total to 123 since January 2019.
According to the National Emergency Operation Centre (EOC) for Polio, of the cases to have surfaced in KP, two are from Tank, one is from Bannu, one is from Dera Ismail Khan and one from Mohmand.
In Tank, the two affected children were a 30-month-old girl and a five-month-old boy. In D.I. Khan, a 24-month-old girl, in Bannu, a 26-month-old boy and in Mohmand, a six-month-old boy have tested positive for the virus.
In Sindh, the new polio case was reported from Dadu.
Of the 123 cases to have been reported since last year, 88 are from KP, 20 from Sindh, nine from Balochistan, and six from Punjab.
It is worth mentioning that in 2018, only 12 cases were reported while in 2017, eight cases had surfaced.
