This Day, That Year
China Daily | Updated: 2016-12-06 07:10
Item from Dec 6, 1993, in China Daily: Millions of Chinese children took candy-coated pills yesterday, marking the start of the nationwide polio immunization campaign. The drive is aimed at wiping out the disease by 1995.
China began implementing a planned vaccination program in 1978, and a national vaccination program in 2007.
Fourteen vaccines are now offered for free to cover 15 diseases.
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