Pakistan reports first polio case of the year

The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health (NIH) has confirmed the detection of the first wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) case of 2025.

The lab confirmed one polio case from DI Khan. The onset of the case was on January 7, 2025, making it the first WPV1 case of 2025.

DI Khan is one of the districts of South KP having 11 polio cases in 2024.

Last year, a total of 73 cases were reported. Of these, 27 were from Balochistan, 22 from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, 22 from Sindh, and one each from Punjab and Islamabad.