Hyderabad:�As the World Polio Day is observed around the globe amid the Covid-19 pandemic on Saturday, experts underlined the need for continuing the polio immunisation programme to help maintain India’s polio-free status.
Since March 2020, the pandemic has disrupted life-saving immunisation endeavours around
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