Kutupalong: Bangladesh on Tuesday began to vaccinate Rohingya refugees who lived in solid camps when the poor South Asian nation fought a surge in a record in Coronavirus cases, officials said.
Health officials said 2,600 cases of Covid-19 and 29 deaths have been recorded in Rohingya 850,000 housing camps but many experts say this is most likely underestimating.
The initial inoculation phase will see around 48,000 refugees over 55 getting a Chinese-made synopharm shot in the next three days, the head of Local Health Mahbubur Rahman told AFP.
Officials said they had brought a “massive vaccination awareness campaign” in camps with volunteers going from door to door to tell the refugees about the importance of stabbing.
Shams UD Doza, Deputy Commissioner Refugee Bangladesh, told AFP that drive vaccination will also begin this week for 18,000 Rohingya whose controversy moved to an island in Bengal Bay.
Bangladesh has been hit by a large surge in cases in recent months and most countries from 169 million people are under the kuncian, including Rohingya camps.
Coronavirus has killed nearly 23,000 people and infects around 1.4 million in Bangladesh, most of them in recent months.
About 98 percent of new infections come from Delta variants which are more transmitting more detected in neighboring India.
“Vaccination of all age groups is the only effective way to stop the virus (of) spread further among the Rohingya populations in camps,” Romain Briey said, Charity MSF’s medical head in Bangladesh.
Most of the Rohingya in Bangladesh escaped the attack on security forces in neighboring Myanmar in 2017 and four years later, there were still a few prospects to go home.
HRUSIKESH HARICHANDAN from the International Federation of Red Cross and the Red Crescent Dictionary said Rohingya “lived in the shadow of the global vaccine split”.
“Vaccination is very important for families to live with dignity because living in a house is very difficult for people in these narrow camps and most still have limited access to water and sanitation facilities, increased risk from Covid-19.”