1 (last case 13 January 2011)

42

741

50,000

150,000

,

was on November 2010, Mumbai.

oral polio vaccines and, since 2010, the bivalent oral polio vaccine () which protects against both P1 and P3 concurrently.

, Government of India, with continued support from WHO’s National Polio Surveillance Project (NPSP), Rotary International, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and UNICEF, as also the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

) immunizing 50-70 million children each

• 2.3 million vaccinators under the direction of 155,000 supervisors visit 209 million houses to administer OPV to around 5 years of age across the country. To reach people on the move, mobile vaccination teams immunize children at railway stations, inside running trains, at bus stands, market places, construction sites, etc. in UP, Bihar and Mumbai alone.  million children are vaccinated with OPV during SNIDs which cover the endemic states of UP and Bihar, re-infected states such as West Bengal and Jharkhand, polio high-risk areas of Delhi and Mumbai (and their surrounding areas). Migrant and mobile populations in Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Rajasthan and Gujarat are also covered in the SNIDs.

both in and outside the polio-endemic states until global eradication is achieved.

– both inside and outside polio-endemic, high-risk and re-infected states and entering India from neighboring Pakistan and Nepal, are protected with OPV in each round.

in view of zero cases.