ISLAMABAD: A new case of wild poliovirus has been reported in Torghar in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, raising the total number of cases in Pakistan in 2025 to 30, a report has said.
According to a statement from the Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at Islamabad's National Institutes of Health (NIH), the latest case of poliovirus was detected in a 12-month-old baby from Ghari union council in Torghar, Pakistan's leading daily, Dawn, reported.
The total number of polio cases in Pakistan in 2025 has reached 30, including 19 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, nine from Sindh, and one each from Punjab and Pakistan-occupied Gilgit-Baltistan, the statement read.