F.P. Report
KHAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Health Department on Thursday has confirmed that two new cases of polio have surfaced in the Bajaur district.
According to official of Health Department, a five-year-old girl from Kut Kot fell victim to the virus while a seven-year-old boy has also been diagnosed with polio.
The officials said both the children had been administered the polio vaccine seven times.
The latest cases in Bajaur take the number of polio cases in the region to three for this year, and eight in Pakistan overall.
Pakistan has been battling polio for the past several years and is close to completely eradicating the disease. The number of cases declined from 306 in 2014 to 54 in 2015, 20 in 2016 and eight in 2017. In 2018, eight polio cases have so far been reported.
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