Which region of the world was declared "Free of Wild Polio" on 25th August 2020?

پچیس اگست 2020 کو دنیا کے کس خطے کو "جنگلی پولیو سے پاک" قرار دیا گیا؟

Answer: Africa

Africa is free from wild poliovirus, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced on 25 August

By 2020, all three strains of the wild poliovirus (type 1, type 2, and type 3) have been eradicated in Africa.

In 2020 two countries where the virus remains endemic, are Afghanistan and Pakistan.

while

Type 2 wild poliovirus was declared eradicated in September 2015.

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