The Uttar Pradesh government is providing digital training to staff nurses, ANMs, and health visitors to ensure every child receives regular immunisation.
Zambian health authorities announced that 672,100 people in three districts battling a cholera outbreak have received oral cholera vaccines.
True burden of vaccine-preventable diseases among the adults in the country still remains unknown, claimed the infectious diseases experts here, today.
The centre was targeted while parents were bringing their children for polio vaccinations.
Congo has launched the second phase of vaccination against mpox.
Communication in this regard has been sent by Union health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan to all the States and UTs as he reviewed the status of Covid vaccination with health secretaries and other officials last week.
Noting that India has been able to deal with the situation better than many countries, Modi drew attention to the increase in the number of cases in some states in the last weeks. ''Increasing cases show that we need to stay alert,'' he added.
PM Modi's statements come a day after the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) granted an emergency use authorization (EUA) to Bharat Biotech's Covaxin for the age group of 6-12 years.
The new deaths took the city's toll to 10 during this outbreak, with more than 300,000 infections since March.
Discussing the recent geopolitical developments, Sitharaman and Georgieva shared concerns about the impact of the Russia-Ukraine conflict on the global
