Three polio cases surface, toll reaches 76.

QUETTA -- The total number of polio cases in 2019 has touched 76 after three more polio cases emerged in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Sunday. According to the Health Ministry, the two cases of polio were reported in Lakki Marwat area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), while the other polio case was reported in Balochistan. Earlier on October 5, three cases of polio were reported in Pakistan. One each case was reported from Sindh, Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The two victims from Lakki Marwat - a seven year-old girl and a 21- month-old boy - are residents of the Sarai Naurang tehsil, a report released by the Emergency Operation Centre said, adding both children had not been administered the polio vaccine.

The EOC report cited 'refusals by parents' as the top reason for the scale of the virus' resurgence witnessed this year. In Balochistan, the victim was an 11-month-old boy from Harnai, The child had been immunised once...