Health and family welfare minister Sardar Md Sakhawat Husain on Monday said more than 2 crore children across the country have already been vaccinated against measles, surpassing the government’s initial target.

‘The measles vaccination campaign is still continuing despite exceeding the target,’ he said while speaking to reporters at Cumilla Medical College Hospital in the morning.

The minister visited the medical as well as Cumilla General Hospital.

He stated that children are being vaccinated under both routine Expanded Programme on Immunisation and special outreach programme.

Sakhawat Husain said prime minister Tarique Rahman is working sincerely to prevent measles and assured that various problems in the country’s health sector will be resolved gradually.

17 children died from measles and measles-like symptoms in Bangladesh in the 24 hours till 8:00am on Monday, the highest death toll in a single day since the outbreak in the March last.