Polio news update in Pakistan

7 May 2020

The GPEI reports no new wild poliovirus cases in Pakistan this week, however there were two new circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) cases (in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas). Afghanistan registered one WPV1 case in Laghman province, taking its YTD total to five. In Africa, only one nation recorded any cVDPV2 cases – one single case in Côte d’Ivoire (Gbokle-Nawa-San-Pedro district). Read more

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