HYDERABAD: Authorities confirmed a new case of polio in Sindh’s Hyderabad district on Monday, taking the total number of polio cases nationwide this year to 27.
The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health in Islamabad reported that the latest case involved an eight-month-old girl.
Sindh has now reported seven cases in 2025, while Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is the worst-hit province with 18 cases. Punjab and Gilgit-Baltistan have reported one case each so far.
The detection comes weeks ahead of a nationwide anti-polio campaign from October 13-19, which aims to vaccinate about 45.4 million children under the age of five with the help of more than 400,000 workers.
Earlier this month, a sub-national campaign covered 88 districts, including Hyderabad, reaching about 21 million children. Polio remains an incurable, highly contagious disease, with repeated doses of oral polio vaccine (OPV) providing the only effective protection.
