A second polio case of the year surfaced in Karachi on Thursday, taking the total toll to two in the metropolitan city and becoming the third case in Sindh since January.
Health authorities said that the polio virus has been found in a six-year-old boy in Union Council-12 in Gulshan-e-Iqbal. They said that the toddler had never been vaccinated against the deadly disease.
Earlier in March, the polio case was reported in Lyari Town, where a three-year-old girl was tested positive for the disease.
Earlier this month, a three-year-old girl in Larkana was diagnosed with polio.
A total of 15 polio cases have been reported across the country since January this year with Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa on the top with 10 cases reported in different cities.
On May 13, a seven-day polio drive kicked off in 94 union councils of Lahore.
The special inoculation campaign had been launched in the provincial capital against the backdrop of three polio cases that were detected in recent weeks.
Health officials said that 2,500 teams have been deployed to reach out to 800,000 children aged five and under. The polio campaign will continue till May 19 without any break, the health officials said.
Three polio cases have been reported in the provincial capital since January this year.
