Tag: polio cases

Two new polio cases surface in Balochistan, KP

QUETTA: Two fresh cases of polio surfaced in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Wednesday. In Balochistan, a 17-month-old was diagnosed with the virus by the provincial...

Two more polio cases emerge in KP

PESHAWAR: Two more cases of poliovirus have surfaced in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa bringing the total number of cases reported in the province this year to 13. According...

Boy tests positive for polio in Lahore

LAHORE: With another polio case surfacing in Lahore, the total number of such cases across Pakistan has touched 9. According to details, the victim was...

KP sees major drop in polio cases during 2018

ISLAMABAD: As many as 745 polio cases were reported in the year 2018, registering a significant decrease as compared to 2017, due to great...

‘Polio eradication to be topmost priority of govt’

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has made a remarkable progress in protecting every child from polio disease, reducing number of the polio cases from almost 20,000 every year...

Sindh CM takes notice of polio cases, poor sanitary conditions

KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Tuesday took notice of the two recent polio cases reported in Karachi and the deteriorating...

Pakistan to become polio-free country by year’s end: UNICEF

Pakistan will become the polio-free country by the end of this year. This was stated by UNICEF Country Representative in Pakistan Angela Kearney while speaking...

Two new polio cases emerge in KP

Two new cases of polio virus have been confirmed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Friday, raising this year’s national tally to five. According to the...

Pakistan records 84% reduction in polio cases: report

A recent healthcare research report has revealed that the number of polio cases in Pakistan has decline sharply during a nine-month period of the...

Polio cases in 2015 declined 82pc over last year, PM told

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Thursday said the government had resolved to eliminate the poliovirus from the country in a “short period of time”. In...

First polio case of 2015 reported from Balochistan

QUETTA- First Polio case of 2015 was reported from Balochistan's Chaghi district on Thursday, private media reported. According to the details provided by Balochistan Health Department,...

Four more polio cases surface in country

Four more polio cases surfaced in the country on Saturday, mounting the number of polio cases to 295 this year. One Polio virus case was...

Two more polio cases reported in Balochistan

Two new polio cases were reported from Balochistan's Killa Abdullah and Pishin districts on Saturday, raising the tally to 21 in the province. Sources in...

Two new polio cases surface in Quetta

At least two more polio cases have been reported in Nasirabad and Killa Abdullah districts in Balochistan on Thursday mounting the count to 19...

Four new polio cases spotted, number ascends to 280

ISLAMABAD- The number of polio cases has ascended to 280 this year, as four new cases are reported from northwestern region on Saturday, private media...

Six more polio cases confirmed

One-day anti-polio drive launched in Peshawar, drive in Gilgit-Baltistan to begin today Six new cases were reported by the Polio Virology Laboratory at the National...

4 new polio cases detected, toll climbs to 276

ISLAMABAD — A health official in Pakistan says four new polio cases have been detected in the country, bringing the number of children affected...