Islamabad, March 23 -- The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at Pakistan's National Institute of Health has confirmed the detection of the Wild Poliovirus Type 1 in sewage samples from 18 districts across the country, according to ARY News.

The National Emergency Operations Centre for Polio confirmed the presence of the virus in environmental samples collected from February 21 to March 6. These samples came from various sewage lines across all four provinces of Pakistan, as reported by ARY news.

The areas affected include 12 districts in Sindh, two districts each in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, one district in Balochistan, and Islamabad.

Specifically, polio traces were found in sewage from districts such as Islamaba...