No adverse impact due to rescheduling of polio immunisation drive: Government
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Last Updated: Mar 09, 2021, 04:23 PM IST
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India conducts one nationwide NID, commonly known as the pulse polio immunisation programme, and two sub-national immunization days every year to maintain population immunity against the wild poliovirus and to sustain its polio-free status.
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There was no adverse impact due to rescheduling of the National Immunisation Day (NID), which was successfully conducted within two weeks and more than 15.8 crore children were vaccinated, Minister of State for Health Ashwini Choubey told the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday.
India conducts one nationwide NID, commonly known as the pulse polio immunisation programme, and two sub-national immunization days every year to maintain population immunity against the wild poliovirus and to sustain its polio-free status.
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Till now no major report of discordant test results has been reported by COVID-19 testing laboratories, Minister of State for Health Ashwini Choubey told Rajya Sabha on Monday. He was responding to a question on whether capping the price of COVID-19 tests has forced several labs to use relatively inexpensive kits raising the risk of false negative and compromising data. Keeping in view fast tracking of approval of test kits, increasing indigenous manufacturing, inclusion of alternative platforms like CBNAAT and GeneXperts, improved market availability at competitive prices, the Union health ministry has advised state governments and union territory (UT) administrations to negotiate with private labs and fix mutually agreeable prices for COVID-19 testing, Choubey said.
Rs 480 crore: Cost of vaccinating 3 crore essential workers against Covid in India
Rs 480 crore: Cost of vaccinating 3 crore essential workers against Covid in India
The expenditure to be incurred as operational cost for Covid-19 vaccination of estimated three crore healthcare and frontline workers is about Rs 480 crore and vaccines cost is about Rs 1,392 crore, Minister of State for Health Ashwini Choubey told the Rajya Sabha on Monday.
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UPDATED: March 9, 2021 01:00 IST
As of February 4, a total of 96.28 lakh healthcare workers and 78.51 lakh frontline workers have been identified for Covid-19 vaccination. (Photo: PTI)
The expenditure to be incurred as operational cost for Covid-19 vaccination of estimated three crore healthcare and frontline workers is about Rs 480 crore and vaccines cost is about Rs 1,392 crore, Minister of State for Health Ashwini Choubey told the Rajya Sabha on Monday.
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