A filephoto shows Rohingya refugees gathered behind a barbed-wire fence at a temporary settlement setup in a "no man's land" border zone between Myanmar and Bangladesh, near Maungdaw district in Myanmar's Rakhine state. - AFP
YANGON, July 19 (dpa): Bangladesh plans to start rolling out inoculations against Covid-19 for the hundreds of thousands of Myanmar Rohingya Muslims living in crowded refugee camps next month, a senior official has announced.
"Subject to availability of the doses, we will begin administering the jabs among Rohingya anytime in August,” Shah Rezwan Hayat, chief of Bangladesh’s Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commission, told dpa.
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