• It is a vaccine against pneumonia and part of India’s Universal Immunisation Programme.
• The vaccine will provide protection against 13 types of pneumococcal bacteria which results in pneumonia.
• This is the twelfth disease for which the Health Ministry has launched a vaccine.
• . PCV was first introduced in 2000.

The vaccine Pneumococcal Conjugate protects against Streptococcus pneumonia and diseases such as pneumonia, ear infections, sinus infections and meningitis