UNICEF commends Zimbabwe for successfully rolling out cholera vaccination drive

HARARE, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations Children's Fund or UNICEF has commended Zimbabweans for embracing the oral cholera vaccination (OCV) campaign, which has helped subdue the one-year cholera outbreak.

The Zimbabwean government launched the OCV targeting 2.3 million people in cholera hotspots in the country, including children above the age of one year, on Jan. 29 this year, in a bid to control the outbreak, which has been raging in the country since February last year.