Pakistan’s Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province records first polio case of 2025

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has reported its first polio case of 2025, with a 13-month-old girl from the Tank district in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province confirmed to have contracted the virus, a media report said on Wednesday.

Citing sources at the National Reference Lab, the Express Tribune newspaper reported that the girl, who first exhibited symptoms of polio on November 25, has been diagnosed with Wild poliovirus type 1.

In 2024, Pakistan recorded 68 polio cases, with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa accounting for 21 of them. Balochistan reported 27 cases, Sindh 19, while Punjab and Islamabad each reported one case.