According to Baaghi TV, Pakistan revealed its second case of wild poliovirus in 2022, when a two-year-old girl from North Waziristan tested positive for new type-1 wild poliovirus (WPV1).
The infant became paralysed on April 14th. On April 29, 2022, the Pakistan National Polio Laboratory at the National Institute of Health declared that the poliovirus has been confirmed.
On April 22, a 15-month-old boy was diagnosed with the condition. Both children are from North Waziristan in southern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP), and they are members of Mir Ali’s Union Councils.