PESHAWAR: The National Institute of Health Thursday confirmed poliovirus presence in a one and half-year-old child in Bizan Khel area of district Bannu, taking the figure of polio case to 14 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and 20 across the country.
According to the health official, Wahidullah brought his infant child to the hospital where his test was sent to NIH and found positive.
The uncle of the affected child said that his nephew wasn’t vaccinated against the crippling disease.
The health official said that during the year 2019 it was the 14th cases reported from KP province while as many as 20 cases were reported from across the country during the first five months of the year.
