Poliovirus detected in environmental sample in Pakistan's Punjab

ISLAMABAD, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- Pakistan's first sample of wild poliovirus in 2023 has been detected in an environmental sample in Lahore, capital of the country's eastern Punjab province, the Pakistani Health Ministry said.

The virus found in a sewage sample of the Gulshan Ravi area of the city has links to a poliovirus found last November in Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar province, the ministry said in a state