Home-grown Covid vax add luster to National Vaccination Day
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S. Ravi ( IANS) |
Published on
Tue, Mar 16 2021 18:03 IST |
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New Delhi, March 16: Home grown Covid-19 vaccines flown to various parts of the world has added luster to India s National Vaccination day an occasion celebrating the dissemination of the first dose of oral polio vaccine in 1995. With this launch, the massively successful Pulse Polio Campaign took wings.
At present, one of India s successful vaccination drive is Mission Indradhanus, launched in 2014. This scheme provides vaccination against eight vaccine-preventable diseases nationally. These are diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, polio, measles, severe form of childhood tuberculosis and Hepatitis B and meningitis and pneumonia caused by Haemophilus influenza type B; and against rotavirus diarrhea and Japanese encephalitis in selected states and districts respectively.