CURRENT AFFAIRS: IMPORTANT DAYS
World Immunization Week 2022 – 24 to 30 April
- World Immunization Week, celebrated in the last week of April, aims to highlight the collective action needed and to promote the use of vaccines to protect people of all ages against disease.
- To commemorate the day, WHO has decided on the theme of 2022 Immunization Week as “Long Life for All”.
- In May 2012, the World Health Assembly, the decision-making body of the WHO, endorsed World Immunization Week.
- The world’s first “World Immunization Week” was observed in 2012, which witnessed the simultaneous participation of more than 180 countries and territories worldwide.
