Islamabad The capital city of Pakistan, Islamabad, on the 25th of August : The poliovirus that is wild was detected in the samples of the environment from three other cities of Pakistan’s Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) provinces The Health Ministry said on Thursday.The virus was discovered in the samples of sewage of Peshawar and Bannu cities of KP and the capital city of Punjab Lahore the Ministry informed Xinhua the news agency.
It stated that the samples of the environment were collected from 70 sites across the nation.
In the last few days the virus was discovered in the samples of Rawalpindi, Sialkot and Bahawalpur cities of Punjab the Ministry of Health said.
Wild Polio-I has been found in 17 environmental samples this year.
However, the extent of its presence throughout the country cannot be determined due to the monsoon rains, floods and monsoons in Sindh as well as Balochistan provinces, as per the Ministry of Interior.
Pakistan was polio-free for nearly a whole year, however fourteen new cases, all coming from the province that is racked by violence has been reported in this year’s.
Pakistan is one of the few countries in the world where new cases of polio persist, even however, the amount of affected children has decreased significantly compared to 306 in 2014.
Neighboring Afghanistan also has a similar issue, with the UK and US both recently registering the presence of polio in wastewater.
Militants associated with Al Qaeda often attack health workers in Pakistan.
Dozens of vaccine handlers and security officers were killed in the recent past.
