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India’s Covid-19 vaccination drive may derail its mother-child immunisation programme As sytems are diverted for Covid-19, they may get too strained to handle the routine immunisation programmes, warn experts. Mar 04, 2021 · 01:30 pm India’s immunisation programme for 12 diseases, which targets 2.67 crore infants and 2.9 crore mothers, is one of the world’s largest. | Reuters/ Amit Dave India’s Covid-19 vaccination target of delivering up to 50 crore doses by July, which is largely piggy-backing on the country’s existing routine immunisation programme, ma...

Interview: Could Covid-19 vaccination undo India’s hard-won battle against polio? India has suspended the polio immunisation drive to make way for Covid-19 vaccination. An expert virologist weighs in on the risks. Jan 13, 2021 · 04:23 pm A child getting polio drops during a polio eradication programme in Jammu February 19, 2012. | Mukesh Gupta/Reuters Exactly a decade ago, on January 13, 2011, India reported its last case of polio. Until the early 1990s, the highly infectious viral disease was hyperendemic in India. It resulted in an average of 500 to 1,000 childr...

Updated Jan 12, 2021 | 10:44 IST Co-WIN, based on five modules, is effectively an upgraded version of the government's Electronic Vaccine Intelligence Network (eVIN) launched in 2015 and used for India's Universal Immunisation Programme. A health worker uploads her details on the Co-WIN app during the dry run of Covid-19 vaccination at Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences in Lucknow.  |  Photo Credit: PTI Key Highlights eVIN was originally designed to closely monitor vaccine inventories at inoculation centres, reduce spoilage of vaccines ...

India begins countrywide Covid-19 vaccination rollout from Jan 16 India is set to begin Covid-19 vaccination drive across the country on January 16 in a bid to prevent the people from being infected with the deadly virus. The government came up with an announcement Saturday evening, after Prime Minister Narendra Modi had chaired a high-level meeting to review the pandemic situation in the country. Priority will be given to the healthcare workers and the frontline workers, estimated to be around 3 crore in number, the government said, adding that they would be followed by 27 crore people, incl...

Haryana gears up for COVID-19 vaccination, 1.9 lakh healthcare workers on priority ANI | Updated: Dec 23, 2020 09:57 IST Chandigarh (Haryana) [India], December 23 (ANI): Haryana Government has prepared data of 1.9 lakh health care workers (HCWs) from both private and government sectors on the Co-WIN portal for successful implementation of COVID-19 vaccination drive, whenever the vaccine is made available in the country. Sharing details of the preparedness of COVID-19 vaccine rollout Additional Chief Secretary, Health, Rajeev Arora said that the Departmen...