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Second case of polio in Delhi

NEW DELHI: The Capital has recorded its second case of polio this year with a 10-month-old child from Okhla reporting in with polio.

The child, Azad Rao, son of a rickshaw puller from Jamia Nagar in Okhla, has been infected with P3 strain of the virus, said a health official.

He said the boy had not received a single dose of the trivalent polio vaccine. He has been administered the MPV1 vaccine five times.

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