Measles outbreak in Bangladesh

Sina Finance news on March 31, Bangladesh has had a measles outbreak this year, infecting over 600 people so far. The Bangladesh Nationalist Party issued a statement on the 30th, saying that the party chairman and Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has instructed two senior officials to conduct an emergency investigation nationwide, assess the situation of the epidemic, and coordinate response efforts. Mohammad Halimur Rashid, head of the Department of Disease Control at the Bangladesh Ministry of Health, said that there have been 674 reported cases of measles nationwide so far this year. He was quoted by Agence France-Presse as saying that routine vaccination programs have been ongoing, with only a special vaccination program originally scheduled for June 2024 being postponed for reasons, and the next special vaccination program scheduled to begin in June. (Xinhua News Agency)