New Delhi: With a particular type of polio virus being detected in water sample collected from a drain in Telangana, the government has declared alert in the city.
The virus (vaccine derived polio virus type-II), was found in the lab tests conducted on sewerage water samples collected at Amberpet in the capital city of Telangana and acting briskly, the government has reportedly airlifted over two lakh vaccines from Geneva to vaccinate more than three lakh children.
Since the time polio was eradicated in the country in 2011, this is the first time that this particular strain of wild polio virus has been witnessed in more than five years.
The government will also launch a campaign targeting children in the age group of six weeks to three years.
