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Intensified Mission Indradhanush 2.0
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- Union health ministry will launch the second phase of nationwide immunisation drive, Indradhanush 2.0 in the second week of December.
- The program aims to vaccinate children in 271 districts with an immunisation coverage of less than 70%.
- Only 16 districts currently have routine immunisation coverage of 90% or more.
- It plans to achieve at least 90% pan-India immunisation coverage by 2022.
- In 2017, the government launched Intensified Mission Indradhanush (IMI) to reach out to children who were not immunised at all or may had received partial immunisation.
- Within a year, around 5 million more children were immunised against 12 vaccine preventable diseases.
- This year (2019) India is commemorating 25 years of its successful Pulse Polio Programme.
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