The Centre on Thursday stated it has rescheduled the anti-polio drive to January 31 in view of the nationwide Covid vaccine rollout on January 16. The Polio National Immunisation Day, which was earlier scheduled for January 17, has been defered to “ensure that Covid management and vaccination services, as well as non-Covid essential health services, proceed in tandem without adversely impacting each other”, the Union Ministry of Health and Welfare stated.
“The massive countrywide Covid-19 vaccination drive will be rolled out by Hon’ble Prime Minister from 16th January, 2021. This would be world’s largest immunisation exercise. Therefore, it has been decided by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) in consultation with the office of the Hon’ble President of India to reschedule the Polio vaccination day, also known as the National Immunisation Day (NID) or “Polio Ravivar” to 31th January 2021 (Sunday),” the ministry stated.
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Hon. President of India to launch Polio National Immunisation Day on thirtieth January 2021.
Polio NID rescheduled to 31th January 2021 (Sunday). pic.twitter.com/YGVFTcFlua
— Ministry of Health (@MoHFW_INDIA) January 14, 2021
The ministry stated the president will launch the Polio National Immunisation Day on January 30 by administering polio drops to youngsters on the Rashtrapati Bhawan at 11.45 am.
India will launch its Covid-19 vaccination drive from January 16. In the preliminary section, an estimated three crore healthcare and frontline employees shall be vaccinated on precedence. Healthcare employees and frontline employees shall be adopted by these above 50 years of age and people under-50 with co-morbidities — these quantity round 27 crore, the Health Ministry stated.
India’s drug regulator has granted accelerated approval for 2 vaccines — Oxford-AstraZeneca’s Covishield and Covaxin by Bharat Biotech and the ICMR, the latter vaccine in a managed “clinical trial mode” provided that its efficacy knowledge is pending.
More than 79 lakh potential vaccine recipients have already been registered on the flagship Co-WIN IT platform, which is able to present real-time info of vaccine shares and can monitor particular person recipients.
Meanwhile, batches of coronavirus vaccine have been shipped to a number of elements throughout the nation on Wednesday. From Assam to Goa and from Jammu and Kashmir to Kerala, the vaccines have been fastidiously transported to totally different elements of the nation.
