Health Ministry and WHO start engaging the latter’s national surveillance network, which was earlier used to eradicate polio, in the fight against the Covid-19 With the number of novel Coronavirus infections rising alarmingly in India, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday started engaging the latter’s national surveillance network, which was earlier used to eradicate polio, in the fight against the Covid-19 epidemic. “The National Polio Surveillance Project (WHO-NPSP) played a critical role in strengthening surveillance for polio that generated useful, timely and accurate data to guide policies, strategies and interventions until transmission of the poliovirus was interrupted in the