The National Immunisation Technical Advisory Group (NITAG) yesterday recommended lowering the age for receiving the measles vaccine to six months, as one-third of the children recently infected with measles are under nine months, the current age for vaccination.

Govt must rebuild broken immunisation system amid reports of deaths

This year, measles cases count stands at 674 in the country

At least 38 children have died of measles and related complications this year as the infectious disease is spreading in the capital and several other districts.

Leaders of the Tripura community in Khagrachhari protest the remarks made by the Khagrachhari deputy commissioner and civil surgeon to the PM that the communities’ “superstition” is the sole reason for the spread of measles in the Chattogram Hill Tracts region.

Six health workers of Chittagong’s Sitakunda are transferred to a remote char of Sandwip as punitive measure in wake of the death of nine children from measles in the upazila.