Tally rises to 23 as another polio case surfaces in KP

ISLAMABAD: A new polio case has been found in Kohat, bringing to 23 the tally of polio cases found to date this year in the country despite repeated countrywide campaigns against the crippling disease.

Of the 23 cases, 15 have been found in Balochistan, 4 in Sindh, 2 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), and one each in Punjab and Islamabad.

According to the Reg­ional Reference Labora­tory for Polio Eradication of the National Institute of Health (NIH), the new case has been found in Kohat...