Cholera vaccination drive from Jun 26

The government is all set to inagurate the cholera vaccination drive across the country on June 26, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said on Tuesday.

The minister said this during an event at iccdr,b auditorium in the capital’s Mohakhali, reports UNB.

He said, “We will officially launch the Cholera Vaccine Program, we will officially launch the Cholera vaccine programme on June 26. The vaccination campaign was supposed to start earlier. But cholera transmission has decreased in the areas where we planned to begin the programme.”

He also said that the cholera vaccine proved to be very effective in the Rohingya camps.

Earlier, DGHS said that 23 lakh people would be vaccinated to prevent diarrhea and cholera.

The first dose of the two-dose vaccine was due in May and the second dose in June.