89 lakh children under 5 years inoculated on National Polio Immunisation Day ANI | Updated: Jan 31, 2021 21:57 IST
New Delhi [India], January 31 (ANI): Close to 89 lakh children (as per provisional data) under five years across the country were given polio drop during Polio National Immunization Day, also known as Polio Ravivar on Sunday.
As per an official release of Union Ministry of Health, vaccinations were conducted at close to 7 lakh booths which were staffed with around 12 lakh vaccinators and 1.8 lakh supervisors. The booth activity will be followed by house-to-house surveillance (mop-up rounds) over the next two to five days to identify and vaccinate children who missed getting vaccinated at the booths. Vaccination teams have also been deployed at bus terminals, railway stations, airports and ferry crossing to vaccinate children in transit to ensure no child misses the life-saving dose, it stated.
CBSE NEET Counselling 2017: All India Quota Online process to begin from TODAY at mcc.nic.in
CBSE NEET Counselling 2017: All India Quota Online process to begin from TODAY at mcc.nic.in
The Online Process Will Be Done On MCC Official Website, Mcc.nic.in On The Basis Of NEET UG Result 2016 Declared By The CBSE. Over 88,000 Candidates Had Registered For NEET In Tamil Nadu, While More Than 84,000 Took The Test.
News Nation Bureau | Edited By : Neha Singh | Updated on: 03 Jul 2017, 08:47:52 AM
New Delhi:
All India medical counselling registration will start from Monday based on CBSE NEET Result 2017. CBSE NEET UG Results 2017 (National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test) was announced at the official website cbseresults.nic.in and cbseneet.nic.in. On May 7, over 11.35 lakh students appeared for the CBSE NEET exams 2017 across the country.
Night curfew in 4 Gujarat cities to continue till Feb 15
The Gujarat government on Saturday extended till February 15 the night curfew in four major cities of the state- Ahmedabad, Surat, Vadodara and Rajkot- to prevent the spread of coronavirus, a senior official said.
However, the duration of the night curfew has been curtailed by an hour, from 10 pm-6 am to 11 pm-6 am, he said.
Odisha
Odisha allows reopening of Anganwadi centres, gatherings of up to 500 people
In view of the decline in the number of fresh COVID-19 cases, the Odisha government on Saturday allowed the reopening of Anganwadi centres and gatherings of up to 500 people with strict adherence to the safety guidelines, a notification said.
No mandatory institutional quarantine for UK travellers: Delhi govt
By IANS| Published: 30th January 2021 7:07 pm IST
New Delhi, Jan 30 : Travellers coming from the UK to the national capital will not have to undergo a seven-day institutional and seven-day home quarantine.
An official order on January 29 released by Delhi Chief Secretary Vijay Dev said,”The situation has now been reviewed and considering low positivity rate of UK returnees, it has been decided that the additional measure of compulsory institutional quarantine of travellers testing negative may not be furthermore and the Delhi government may align with Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) issued by the Government of India from time-to-time in this regard.”
World Leprosy Day | India must ensure economic security for people with leprosy, says WHO goodwill ambassador
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Yohei Sasakawa has rhetorically stressed that the government should bring leprosy-affected people into the mainstream and get them treated
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Yohei Sasakawa has rhetorically stressed that the government should bring leprosy-affected people into the mainstream and get them treated India needs to take special measures to ensure economic security for people with leprosy as situations like the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic have jolted the ostracised community, making them rely merely on handouts to survive, WHO Goodwill Ambassador against the disease Yohei Sasakawa has said.