Sixth polio case reported, 20 more samples test positive

ISLAMABAD: While Pakistan has reported a sixth case of polio during the current year, 20 more environmental samples have tested positive for the virus of crippling disease.

A nine-month-old fema­­le child has been paralysed by poliovirus, bringing the number of cases reported this year to six.

The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Era­dication at the National Institute of Health (NIH) has notified that the virus was detected in a nine-month-old child from Orakzai district.