The WHO has administered oral cholera vaccine to over 700,000 people in Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar area, the world’s second largest oral cholera vaccination drive by the world health body. The first phase of the campaign to protect the Rohingyas and host communities from the diarrhoeal disease was launched on October 10.
It has covered 700,487 people aged one year and above and 179,848 of them are children between one and five, WHO Representative to Bangladesh N Paranietharan said.