Pakistan reported 1,270 cholera cases in the 90 days to 25 October 2026, according to the ENCLAI cholera tracker. Pakistan accounts for 3.5 percent of the cholera cases reported to ENCLAI worldwide in 2026 and ranks sixth of 31 reporting countries. In 2025, the tracker closed at 18,830 reported cases for Pakistan.

The numbers, with their limits

The tracker's table puts Pakistan behind Nigeria, with 12,087 cases in the same 90-day window, the Democratic Republic of the Congo with 10,677, Cameroon with 1,586, and ahead of Yemen with 1,194 and South Sudan with 1,154. For Pakistan, the 2026 total so far in the ENCLAI export is 6,184 cases. The 30 days to 25 October 2025 had 919 cases, but no counts have been reported for 26 September 2026 to 25 October 2026. Missing reports do not mean zero cases, and that gap is the most important caveat in the whole briefing: the 90-day total is a reported total, not a complete count of illness.

Why reporting gaps matter

Cholera is a waterborne disease linked to unsafe water and poor sanitation, and case counts depend on surveillance, testing and reporting as much as on transmission itself. A country can look better or worse in a tracker simply because its reporting paused, changed, or caught up in a batch. That is why the tracker itself warns that coverage varies and that source-record dates differ between countries.

For readers, the useful takeaway is not a single number but the pattern: cholera remains a recurring public-health risk in Pakistan, with thousands of reported cases in 2026, and the latest 90-day window still shows more than a thousand reported cases even with a recent reporting gap. Anyone seeking health guidance should use official health sources, not a news brief, and this article is reporting on a tracker, not medical advice.