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Highlights of the week
WildPoliovirus
▪ No new WPV1 cases reported this week. The total WPV1 cases count for 2025 to date is 7 (1 from Afghanistan and 6 from Pakistan) and in 2024, the total case count remains 99 (25 from Afghanistan and 74 from Pakistan).
▪ Twenty-four new WPV1 positive ES reported this week all from Pakistan. The newly reported WPV1 ES are as follows: 18 from Sindh Province (3 from Hyderabad, 2 each from Karachi East, Karachi KEAMARI, Kambar, and Sukkur and 1 each from Karachi West, Karachi Central, Dadu, Shahid Benazirabad, Sujawal, Jacobabad, and Badin districts), 2 each from Punjab province (Dera Ghazi Khan and Lahore districts) and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province (Wazir-South Lower and Wazir-South Upper districts), and 1 each from Balochistan province (Chaman district) and Islamabad province (Capital Development Authority district). The total ES count to date in 2025 is 175 (9 from Afghanistan and 166 from Pakistan) compared to 741 in 2024 (113 from Afghanistan and 628 from Pakistan).
Vaccine derived poliovirus (VDPV)
▪ No new cVDPV2 cases reported this week. The cVDPV2 cases count in 2025 to date is 1 (from Djibouti) compared to 45 in 2024 (37 from Yemen, 7 from Somalia, and 1 from Occupied Palestinian Territory).
▪ Two new cVDPV2 ES in 2024 from Djibouti reported this week. The new reported cVDPV2 ES are from Djibouti province/district and Arta province/district with collection dates on 26th November 2024 and 8 th December 2024 respectively. The count of cVDPV2 from ES in 2025 is 10 (6 from Occupied Palestinian Territory, 3 from Djibouti, and 1 from Somalia) as compared to 49 in 2024 (20 from Occupied Palestinian Territory, 12 from Yemen, 9 from Djibouti, 3 from Somalia, 2 each from Egypt and Sudan, and 1 in Bahrain).
▪ One aVDPV2 case in 2024 reported this week from Sudan, from Al Salam district of White Nile province with date of onset on 29th November 2024.