Pulse Polio drive: Bengaluru records 95% coverage

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The Pulse Polio Immunisation Programme recorded a important fig connected its archetypal time successful Bengaluru, with much than 10.77 lakh children vaccinated against a people of 11,34,988, an wide sum of astir 95%.

The campaign, which was launched by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, was being carried retired crossed each 5 metropolis corporations- Bengaluru Central, West, East, South, and North. On the archetypal day, the show ranged betwixt 94% and 98% crossed the corporations, with Bengaluru East signaling the highest sum of astir 98%.

Vaccination efforts included booth-based immunisation, house-to-house visits, and transit vaccination astatine nationalist locations. Transit points unsocial saw implicit 1.04 lakh children receiving oral polio drops, portion a full of 66,798 oral polio vaccines vials were administered crossed the city. 

Published - December 21, 2025 09:51 p.m. IST

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