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- Polio Immunization Program extends support to Myanmarese children in Manipur relief campsThe National Immunization Day, Intensified Pulse Polio Immunization Program 2024 was initiated in Manipur's Kamjong district to provide hea...04 Mar, 2024, 12.46 AM IST
- Three-day pulse polio vaccination drive begins today: Here are all details on booths, timings, and areasA nationwide three-day pulse polio vaccination drive targeting children aged 0 to 5 is underway. Starting on Sunday, mobile teams, transit ...03 Mar, 2024, 11.11 AM IST
- Rare Case of Polio Prompts Alarm, Urgent Investigation in New YorkOn Friday, health officials were investigating the case, interviewing immediate family members of the patient and urging immunizations for ...23 Jul, 2022, 11.31 PM IST
- Around 25 mn kids around the world missed routine vaccinations because of Covid pandemicData showed the vast majority of the children who failed to get immunized were living in developing countries.15 Jul, 2022, 01.03 PM IST
- No adverse impact due to rescheduling of polio immunisation drive: GovernmentIndia conducts one nationwide NID, commonly known as the pulse polio immunisation programme, and two sub-national immunization days every y...09 Mar, 2021, 04.23 PM IST
- 89 lakh kids below 5 years given polio drops across India on 'Polio Ravivar': Health ministry"The booth activity will be followed by house-to-house surveillance (mop-up rounds) over the next two to five days to identify and vaccinat...31 Jan, 2021, 09.19 PM IST
- Pandemic halts vaccination for nearly 80 million childrenUNICEF reported a significant delay in planned vaccine deliveries due to lockdown measures and a dramatic reduction in the number of availa...22 May, 2020, 09.09 PM IST
- India remains polio free, all vaccines used in government immunisation prog safe: UNICEF, WHOThe United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO) said the risk of children getting vaccine derived polio...11 Oct, 2018, 04.51 PM IST
- All about the latest polio vaccine scareFew batches of vaccines of a particular manufacturer in three states have been found contaminated.05 Oct, 2018, 12.43 PM IST
- President Ram Nath Kovind launches Pulse Polio programme for 2018Over 17 crore children below five years across the country will be given polio drops as part of the Government of India's drive.27 Jan, 2018, 06.01 PM IST
- Government allays concerns on polio; says India remains polio-freeHealth Ministry said the detected polio virus strain, which was was found in a sewage sample collected near the Secunderabad railway statio...15 Jun, 2016, 04.34 PM IST
- President Pranab Mukherjee launches Pulse Polio Immunization ProgrammeLauding the efforts of volunteers and supervisors, Health Minister J P Nadda said that there has been no case of wild polio since January 1...17 Jan, 2015, 10.31 PM IST
- Pakistan plans to vaccinate three million children against polioIPV will be administered to children at end of November as a supplementary dose while Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV) will be given to them as per...04 Nov, 2014, 04.55 PM IST
- Pakistan breaks its own record of maximum polio cases a yearA health official from said that out of eight new cases, six are from tribal areas and adjacent Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, and one each f...04 Oct, 2014, 02.44 PM IST
- Year's first case of vaccine-derived polio reported in BengalA five-month-old child from the Murshidabad district of West Bengal has got infected with the virus after taking the oral polio vaccine.19 Mar, 2012, 09.14 AM IST
- India polio-free? No case since January 13India has not reported a single polio case in over 200 days. The country's only polio case reported this year was on January 13 from West B...12 Oct, 2011, 08.48 AM IST
- India battles polio virus from Pakistan; alarm raised after 4 infants in China infected with the virusBooths have been set up at the Wagah border for people coming from Pakistan by foot or by the Indo-Pak bus service.19 Sep, 2011, 08.34 AM IST
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