Dhaka, April 30 -- Health and Family Welfare Minister Sardar Md Sakhawat Husain today (Thursday) said that all children in the country will be brought under measles vaccination coverage within the next week.

He made the remarks while speaking at a programme held at the TB Hospital in Shyamoli in the capital this morning, BSS reports.

The event was organised to hand over GeneXpert cartridges and tuberculosis prevention medicines for children, provided by the United States government, to the National Tuberculosis Control Programme.

About the progress of measles vaccination, Sakhawat said, "We have covered 61 percent of the target. One hundred percent of children will be brought under measles vaccination coverage within the next week."

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