One new polio case surfaces in Sindh, tally reaches 19.

KARACHI -- One new polio case was reported from Karachi on Monday, taking the provincial tally to 19 this year.

A 60-month male child in Landhi UC-1 was diagnosed with the polio virus after developing weakness in his left upper and lower limb. He had received the anti-polio vaccine on multiple occasions, according to parents. But the routine immunisation card showed zero doses. An investigation into the claims is ongoing.

The Sindh government launched successive anti-polio campaigns from December 2019 to March 2020 that went a long way to put the anti-polio programme back on track, a spokesperson for the Sindh Emergency Operation Centre for Polio said.

However, the global polio eradication initiative had to be halted following the outbreak of...