Summary:
On Monday, vaccination camps will continue in hospitals and outreach centres. On the last day of the campaign on Saturday, as many as 6,520 children were vaccinated, taking the total number of vaccinated children to 5,80,714. The MR vaccine campaign was launched by the government as part of the national immunisation programme. The drive included giving vaccination to all children in the age group of nine months to 15 years. It was only after the authorities spelt out an action plan to counter the social media campaign against MR vaccination that the district managed to catch up with a reasonable achievement of 85.89% coverage..