Pakistan Reports Polio Case to Take Year’s Count to 13

A girl receives polio vaccine drops during an anti-polio campaign in a low-income neighborhood as the spread of COVID-19 continues in Karachi, Pakistan, on July 20, 2020. Akhtar Soomro/Reuters

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan—Pakistan’s polio count for the year has risen to 13 with one case reported on Friday as the South Asian nation looks to contain a disease mostly eradicated elsewhere, officials said.

The latest case was found in the northwest province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and involved an 18-month-old boy reported to be undernourished, the health ministry said in a statement.