Southeast Asia has been declared officially free of polio.
The World Health Organization (WHO) delivered the good news after India successfully recorded three polio-free years.
Southeast Asia is the fourth of six regions to be declared polio-free after North and South America, the Western Pacific, and European regions.
With the latest development, the WHO announced that 80 percent of the world is now safe from polio. Pakistan unfortunately is one of the few countries in the world where the dreaded Polio virus is still found