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Number of children vaccinated under Mission Indradhanush has increased sig
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 12 (ANI): Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Mansukh Mandaviya on Tuesday stated that due to vaccination campaign under Mission Indradhanush has increased the number of vaccinated children between the age group of 12 months to 23 months by 14.4 per cent in 2021.
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Nepal rolls out anti-Typhoid vaccine for population below 15 years
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Kathmandu [Nepal], April 8 (ANI): Nepal has launched a new vaccine campaign introducing Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine (TCV) into the routine immunization program targeting populations between 15 months to 15 years.
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NTAGI recommends reducing gap between two doses of Covishield: Sources
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 20 (ANI): The National Technical Advisory Group on Immunization (NTAGI) on Sunday recommended the Union Ministry of Health to reduce the COVID-19 vaccine Covishield's duration of the second dose to somewhere between 8 to 16 weeks after the first dose in view of the o
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Tripura: 1.37 lakh children in Tripura eligible to receive Corbevax doses
Updated : 3 years, 12 months ago IST
Agartala (Tripura), March 16 [ANI]: Nearly 1.37 lakh children belonging to the age group of 12 to 14 years have been found to be eligible to receive the Corbevax vaccine approved by the government of India, Tripura State Immunization Officer, Moushumi Sarkar said on Wednesday.
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High-risk children are priority of COVID-19 vaccination programme
Updated : 3 years, 12 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 15 (ANI): The primary focus was immunisation of children with comorbidities but due to the unavailability of data of such children, we have decided to open immunization for all the children between the age group of 12-15 years, said Dr NK Arora, Chairman of COVID-
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Mission Indradhanush: Odisha tops in full immunization with 90.5pc coverag
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], March 9 (ANI): In a step towards preventive health care for mother and children, the intensified Mission Indradhanush (IMI) 4.0 has been rolled out in the State from 7 March for boosting full immunization coverage of the targeted women and children, said Stat
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Karnataka's war against polio 'most successful', says CM Bommai
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], February 27 (ANI): Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj S Bommai on Sunday asserted that the state's war against polio is the "most successful".
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Mandaviya launches Polio National Immunization Day - 2022, administers pol
Updated : 4 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 26 (ANI): Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare Mansukh Mandaviya on Saturday launched the "Polio National Immunization Day - 2022" by administering polio drops to children aged less than five years.
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UN condemns killing of eight polio workers in Afghanistan
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], February 25 (ANI): The UN has condemned the killing of eight polio vaccination workers in northern Afghanistan on Thursday, the first such attacks since immunization campaigns resumed in November last year.
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Tripura govt launches special drive to immunize expectant mothers, childre
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Agartala (Tripura) [India], February 9 (ANI): The Tripura government on Tuesday launched a special immunization drive for expectant mothers and children to cover the left out population that did not receive the essential COVID-19 vaccine doses.
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Precaution dose of COVID-19 vaccine will be same as previous shot: Centre
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 6 (ANI): Union Health Ministry in a letter to states on Thursday recommended that precaution dose for healthcare workers, frontline workers and senior citizens with co-morbidities will be the same as given previously.
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COVAX targets 70 pc COVID-19 immunization coverage by mid-2022
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], December 24 (ANI): Amid possible need for variant-specific vaccines, changes to vaccination policies, country preference for some products over others, the programmatic complexity of managing multiple products, and the need for better intelligence on country-level plann
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