• Afghanistan: four WPV1 cases and no WPV1-positive environmental samples. The most recent case was on November 21, 2025. There were 20 cases in 2025.
• Malawi: two cVDPV2-positive environmental samples
• Nigeria: no cVDPV1 cases, no cVDPV2 cases, no cVDPV2-positive environmental samples, and two cVDPV3 cases
• Pakistan: one WPV1 case and six WPV1-positive environmental samples. The most recent case was on February 10, 2026. There were 31 cases in 2025.

Other polio news:

WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus participated this week in a UK Parliamentary event on polio eradication, organized by Rotary UK, at the House of Commons. “Thank you to Rotary and the UK for your unwavering and long-standing partnership in the global effort to eradicate polio. Together with partners, we are very close to eradicating this crippling disease.”

By integrating polio drops in Pakistan’s late 2025 measles-rubella campaign, in addition to protecting 34 million children from measles-rubella nationwide, over 19 million were also protected from paralytic polio across 88 high-risk districts.

The report from last month’s meeting of the International Health Regulations Emergency Committee on International Spread of Poliovirus has been published.

You can get the latest statistical updates at: https://polioeradication.org/about-polio/polio-this-week.

Contact your District’s Rotary Foundation Chairperson, PolioPlus Chairperson, or Zone End Polio Now Coordinator for additional information or for a presentation to your clubs or district.