CHILDREN below four months started receiving the new pneumoccocal vaccine against pneumonia and meningitis last Friday. The vaccine, launched last month, is administered in children at six, 10 and 14 weeks.
Ministry of Health and Child Welfare Expanded Programme on Immunisation manager Mrs Mary Kamupota said with effect from Friday, children will be immunised against BCG at birth as before.
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