Vaccination at Cox’s Bazar Rohingya camps begins tomorrow

The Daily Star
Star Digital Report
Mon Aug 9, 2021 

Rohingya refugee children at Kutupalong refugee camp near Cox’s Bazar. File photo: Reuters

Covid-19 vaccination campaign for Rohingyas in the refugee camps of Cox's Bazar will begin tomorrow, reports our local correspondent quoting the district's civil surgeon.

Md Mahbubur Rahman, Cox's Bazar district civil surgeon, told The Daily Star that the vaccination campaign will begin 11am tomorrow at the Kutupalong Rohingya camp in Ukhia, Cox's Bazar. Syed Rezwan Hayat, the Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner (RRRC), will accompany him.

IOM mulls vaccination campaign for Rohingyas

NEWAGE

United News of Bangladesh . Dhaka 

Jun 16,2021

The International Organisation for Migration has said it is working closely with the government and the humanitarian community to ramp up the delivery of a wide range of support services for Rohingyas and host communities in Cox’s Bazar district to fight Covid-19.

‘It is imperative to strengthen our assistance and not let the situation deteriorate any further before it becomes impossible for the existing healthcare services to cope,’ said Manuel Marques Pereira, IOM deputy chief of mission in Bangladesh.

A second wave of Covid-19 is ravaging South Asia, including Bangladesh, said IOM on Tuesday.