“The four new cases bring the total detected cases to 13 for this year,” World Health Organisation (WHO)`s polio chief Dr Nima Abid told Dawn. It is pertinent to mention that during the same time last year, the number of confirmed polio cases in the country stood at eight.This time around, one case each has been reported from Bahawalnagar in Punjab, Khyber Agency in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas and Hyderabad and Naushahro Feroze in Sindh.

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