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No adverse impact due to rescheduling of polio immunisation drive: Government
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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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The National Polio immunisation programme, as part of which children in the age group of 0-5 years are administered polio drops, has been rescheduled to January 31. The National Immunisation Day (NID), commonly known as Pulse Polio Immunisation programme, was earlier scheduled for January 17 across India. The massive countrywide COVID-19 vaccination drive will be rolled out by Prime Minister from January 16. This would be the world s largest immunisation exercise. Therefore, it has been decided by the Ministry of Health in consultation with the office of the President of India to reschedule the Polio vaccination day, also known as the National Immunisation Day (NID) or Polio Ravivar to 31st January, the Union Health Minist
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The National Immunisation Day (NID), commonly known as Pulse Polio Immunisation Programme, was scheduled for January 17 AP Photo/Bikas Das Outlook Web Bureau 2021-01-13T11:48:04+05:30 India Defers Polio Immunisation Programme Due To Unforeseen Activities outlookindia.com 2021-01-13T12:22:19+05:30
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The national immunisation programme against polio has been deferred till further notice by the Centre, due to unforeseen activities , the Union Health Ministry said in a letter on January 9.
The programme administers polio drops to children in the age group of 0-5 years. India launched the Pulse Polio immunisation programme in 1995. The National Immunisation Day (NID), commonly known as Pulse Polio Immunisation Programme, was scheduled for January 17 across India.