ISLAMABAD: Official of the National Institute of Health (NIH) told another four more cases of polio, two each in Punjab and Sindh have been reported.
National Coordinator Emergency Operation Centre for Polio Dr Rana Safdar confirmed that four new cases had been detected.
According to him, the samples of the patients from Sindh and Punjab were taken and referred to NIH last year. A five-year-old boy, Deenpur, a resident of the union council (UC), Thull tehsil, Jacobabad district, became paralyzed due to poliovirus.
The other patients a 48-month-old boy, Phulladyon a resident of UC, Sindhri tehsil, Mirpurkhas district, the official said.
It further stated that the children paralyzed by poliovirus in Punjab are both girls. The patients are four and their age was between eight-10 months, residents of Aali Wala UC, D.G. Khan tehsil.
Dr Rana Safdar said the health officials consider the date of collection of the samples for placing the cases in the year, all four cases have been placed in 2019 and the tally for the year has reached 144, he added.
Safdar told that so far seven cases had been confirmed in 2020 and the last case for the current year was reported from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
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