Dhaka kickstarts drive to vaccinate 34 million children 'despite pandemic'
DHAKA: Bangladesh’s government on Saturday launched a $50 million national campaign to vaccinate millions of children against measles (rubella) despite the coronavirus “health emergency,” officials told Arab News. “In 2019, we noticed a rise in the number of cases of measles, rubella among children in different parts of the country,” Mowla Baksh Chaudhury, program manager, Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI), told Arab News. According to the EPI data, 82 cases of measles cases were reported in the country last year. “We didn’t want it to grow further, which prompted the gov...
Source: arabnews.com