Rohingyas, locals to get support from Covid centre in Teknaf

FINANCIAL EXPRESS
 Published: September 01, 2020

UNICEF in partnership with International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b) is supporting a 200-bed isolation and treatment centre in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar district to provide critical care for Covid-19 patients from both Bangladeshi and Rohingya communities.

Cox’s Bazar မှာ ဒုက္ခသည်တွေအတွက် IOM က ကိုဗစ် ကျန်းမာရေးဗဟိုဌာနသစ်ဖွင့်

VOA
ဗွီအိုအေ (မြန်မာပိုင်း)
19 သြဂုတ်၊ 2020

  Cox’s Bazar မှာ ဒုက္ခသည်တွေအတွက် IOM က ကိုဗစ်ကျန်းမာရေးဗဟိုဌာနသစ်ဖွင့် (ဓါတ်ပုံ-IOM)

ရွှေ့ပြောင်းအခြေချနေထိုင်သူများ အကူအညီပေးရေးအဖွဲ့ (IOM) က ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်အစိုးရနဲ့ ပူးပေါင်းပြီး ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ် နယ်စပ် Cox’s Bazar က ရိုဟင်ဂျာ ဒုက္ခသည် စခန်းတစ်ခုမှာ ကုတင် ၁၂၀ ဆံ့ COVID 19 ရောဂါဆိုင်ရာ ကျန်းမာရေးဗဟိုဌာန အသစ် တစ်ခုကို ဖွင့်လှစ်ခဲ့ပါတယ်။ အဲဒီဗဟိုဌာနမှာ ပြင်းထန်အဆုတ် ရောင်ကူးစက်ရောဂါ အတွက် သီးခြားခွဲထားရေးနဲ့ ကုသရေး ဌာန တစ်ခု ပါဝင်ပြီး COVID-19 ရောဂါလူနာ တွေအတွက် ရည် ရွယ် ဖွင့်လှစ်တာဖြစ်ပါတယ်။

COVID-19 Explained, edition #7 - The Stories being told: Rohingya report on the epidemic, 13th July 2020

ဘူးသီးေတာင္ၿမိဳ႕ေန ျပည္သူမ်ား ကိုဗစ္-၁၉ ေရာဂါ ကာ ကြယ္မႈအားနည္းေန

DVB
16 July 2020

ကိုဗစ္-၁၉ လူနာ ၄ ဦးအထိေတြ႕ရွိထားတဲ့ ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္ ဘူးသီးေတာင္ၿမိဳ႕နယ္ေန ျပည္သူေတြအေနနဲ႔ ကို ဗစ္-၁၉ ေရာဂါကာကြယ္ေရးနဲ႔ပတ္သက္ၿပီး က်န္းမာေရးဌာနမွ ထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္ေတြကို လိုက္နာမႈ အားနည္း ေနတယ္လို႔ ဘူးသီးေတာင္ၿမိဳ႕နယ္ေဆး႐ုံအုပ္ႀကီး ေဒါက္တာေစာမင္းသိန္းက ေျပာပါတယ္။

“လက္ရွိမွာ ဘူးသီးေတာင္ၿမိဳ႕နယ္အေနနဲ႔ ကိုဗစ္ေရာဂါႀကိဳတင္ကာကြယ္ေရးအတြက္ အသိပညာေပးလုပ္ ငန္းေတြကို CSO ေတြ INGO ေတြနဲ႔လက္တြဲၿပီး စဥ္ဆက္မျပတ္လုပ္ေဆာင္ ေနပါတယ္။ ဒါေပမဲ့ ျပည္သူ ေတြ အေနနဲ႔ကေတာ့ လိုက္နာမႈအားနည္းေနတာ ေတြ႕ေနရပါတယ္။ အစကတည္းက လက္ေဆးဖို႔ အေလ့ အက်င့္မရွိၾကဘူး။ Mask တပ္ဖို႔ အေလ့အက်င့္မရွိဘူး။ ဒါေတြကို အသိပညာျပန္႔ပြားေအာင္ လုပ္ေဆာင္ဖို႔ လို ပါတယ္။”လို႔ ေျပာၾကားပါတယ္။

1.1 million Rohingya refugee is now out of thinking amid the pandemic

moderndiplomacy
Mohammad Kepayet
July 15, 2020

Rohingya refugees fleeing conflict and persecution in Myanmar (file photo). IOM/Mohammed

Next August will be the third anniversary of the Rohingya genocide and the forcible exile. Bangladesh has given shelter to Rohingyas who fled Myanmar in 2017. Asia never saw that amount of refuge at the same time after the liberation war of Bangladesh. Rohingya repatriation has been discussed at various times. Some discussions are in process. But suddenly the coronavirus invades the repatriation debate. So the Rohingya repatriation process is coming to a halt. From the world media to the UN and all the powerful countries are now busy dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic.

Covid-19 And The Rohingya: Hunger, exploitation, hate crimes and xenophobia

The Daily Star
C R Abrar
 July 14, 2020

“What these youth want is to thrive as human beings, to realise their innate potentials, not merely to survive.” Photo: Anisur Rahman 

"We are the same human being like you and need the same basic rights which you enjoy. Please don't hate us. We don't want to be a burden. Allow us to study and work, and stand by us. We will surely return home."

This was the ardent appeal of Sharifah Shakirah, who fled to Malaysia from Buthidaung township in Myanmar at the age of six. Sharifah was joined by four other Rohingya youth at an eSymposium on June 9 to share their experiences of the Covid-19 situation in their respective countries of asylum.

Covid-19 pushed Rohingyas towards hunger, malnutrition: Experts

UNB

UNB News
Dhaka
July 10, 2020,

File photo

Experts at an e-symposium on Thursday said the lockdowns and economic slowdown for Covid-19 pandemic in different countries have robbed Rohingya refugee communities further of their livelihood opportunities and pushed them into hunger and malnutrition.

They made these remarks at an e-symposium titled ‘Hunger, Exploitation, Hate Crime and Xenophobia! Rohingyas on Land and at Sea’ organised by Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit (RMMRU) in collaboration with Free Rohingya Coalition.

Covid-19 exposed Rohingyas to hate, xenophobia: Experts

THE BUSINESS STANDARD
TBS Report
09 July, 2020

Lockdowns, economic slowdown in different countries robbed the Rohingyas of their livelihood opportunities and pushed them into an abyss of hunger 

Rohingya refugees at the Kutupalong camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh/Reuters 

 

The Covid-19 pandemic has disproportionately harmed refugees, asylum seekers and stateless people such as the Rohingyas, said speakers at an online event jointly organised by the Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit (RMMRU) and Free Rohingya Coalition.

The lockdowns and economic slowdown in different countries have robbed the Rohingyas of their livelihood opportunities and pushed them into an abyss of hunger and malnutrition. It has also exposed them to exploitation, hate and xenophobia, they added.

Rohingyas facing more xenophobia amid the Covid-19 pandemic: activists

The Daily Star
July 09, 2020
Star Online Report

Rohingya refugees walk towards the Balukhali refugee camp after crossing the border in Bangladesh’s Ukhia district, on November 2, 2017. Photo: Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP

Rohingya activists have urged the host countries to stop hatred against them and treat them as human beings, saying the refugees, who have fled genocidal acts in Myanmar, are now facing a higher level of xenophobia amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Stating that countries like Malaysia and Thailand had refused entry to Rohingyas who tried to go on their shores citing fears of coronavirus infection, they said it was not their choice to take such risky journeys but the grave rights violations back in Myanmar had forced them to do so.

Covid-19’s hidden threat in Myanmar

ASIA TIMES
by Bertil Lintner
July 7, 2020
History shows pandemics can lead to profound political change in Myanmar

Medical staff, nurses and volunteers wear protective gear amid concerns over the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus as they prepare for going door-to-door for health check-ups in Yangon on May 17, 2020. Photo: AFP/Sai Aung Main

CHIANG MAI – Covid-19 lockdowns and internal travel restrictions have been lifted across Myanmar but that doesn’t mean its virus crisis is over – far from it.

Myanmar has officially confirmed only 316 Covid-19 cases and six related deaths, figures that many observers doubt are an accurate portrayal of the nation’s underlying viral situation.

ရိုဟင်ဂျာစခန်းတွင်း ကိုဗစ်ကူးစက်မှုတိုးလို့ ဒုက္ခသည်တွေ စိုးရိမ်

VOA
ဗွီအိုအေ (မြန်မာဌာန)
မဆုမွန်
07 ဇူလိုင်၊ 2020

ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်နိုင်ငံ Cox's Bazar ဒေသရှိ Kutupalong ဒုက္ခသည်စခန်းအနီးမှာ တွေ့ရတဲ့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာ ဒုက္ခသည်တချို့။ (ဧပြီ ၀၁၊ ၂၀၂၀)

သိန်းချီတဲ့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာတွေနေထိုင်တဲ့ ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ် ဒုက္ခသည်စခန်းတွေထဲက COVID 19 ကူးစက်ခံရမှု နောက်ဆုံးအခြေအနေနဲ့ ဒုက္ခသည်တွေရဲ့ စိုးရိမ်ချက်တွေကို စုစည်းတင်ပြချင်ပါတယ်။ ဗွီအိုအေ မြန်မာပိုင်း သတင်းထောက် မဆုမွန်က ပြောပြပေးပါမယ်။                                                                                                  

Advance planning, joint efforts were key: speakers

Limiting Covid-19 Transmission at Rohingya Camps

The Daily Star

July 06, 2020
Unb, Dhaka

Speakers at a virtual discussion lauded the government's advance planning and joint efforts with the UN and humanitarian partners to limit the transmission of coronavirus in the Rohingya camps, saying that this story must be heard globally.

They vowed to continue working together to keep Rohingyas and the host community safe.

CRI hosted the live discussion titled "Let's Talk on Rohingya Response and Covid-19" yesterday.

Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen, UNHCR Representative in Bangladesh Steven Corliss, Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner (RRRC) Mahbub Alam Talukder, Medical Officer and IPC focal for Leda ITC Sumaya Tasnim and Rohingya representative Jane Alam took part in the discussion moderated by Showvik Das Tamal.

Rohingya refugee claims child barred from attending PAS kindergarten due to Covid-19

malaymail

Wednesday, 01 Jul 2020 

BY YISWAREE PALANSAMY

General view of a Rohingya settlement in Bandar Baru Sentul, Kuala Lumpur April 24, 2020. — Picture Hari Anggara

KUALA LUMPUR, July 1 — A Rohingya father has claimed today that his six-year-old child has been barred from attending a kindergarten which reopened today, allegedly due to an internal policy against foreigners who are deemed at high risk of contracting Covid-19.

The father said he was informed of the ban by one of the teachers in the PASTI Islamic kindergarten that is managed by the Youth wing of Islamist party PAS, after he enquired about its reopening.

အင္ဒိုနီးရွားေရာက္ ေလွစီးေျပးဒုကၡသည္ေတြကို COVID -19 ေရာဂါရွိမရွိစစ္ေဆးေန

VOA

ဗြီအိုုေအ (ျမန္မာဌာန)

29 ဇြန္၊ 2020
ကိုဉာဏ္ဝင္းေအာင္

 

အင္ဒိုနီးရွားႏိုင္ငံအထိ ေလွစီးေျပး ေရာက္လာၾကတဲ့ ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာဒုကၡသည္ (၁၀၀)နီးပါးကို ေဒသခံ တံငါသည္  ေတြ ကယ္တင္ခဲ့ၿပီး ေလာေလာဆယ္ အာဏာပိုင္ေတကြ ေနစရာေပးေစာင့္ေရွာက္ထားသလို၊ ကိုဗစ္ေရာဂါ ပိုးရွိမရွိ စစ္ေဆးေပးနတဲ့အေၾကာင္း AFP သတင္းကို အေျခခံၿပီး ဉာဏ္ဝင္းေအာင္ပါ ေျပာျပပါလိမ့္မယ္။ 

လင့္၊https://burmese.voanews.com/a/covid-rohingya-indonesia/5480849.html?fbclid=IwAR0Q1RGIpRKjY0V9S1FH5HwsL-Qd00YD6sq11MawamuQlTw7brQ5RoQMlBE

အင္ဒိုနီးရွားေရာက္ ေလွစီးေျပး ႐ုိဟင္ဂ်ာေတြကို COVID -19 စစ္ေဆး

VOA

ဗြီအိုုေအ (ျမန္မာဌာန)

28 ဇြန္၊ 2020
ကိုဉာဏ္ဝင္းေအာင္

အင္ဒုိနီးရွားေရာက္ ေလွစီးေျပး ႐ုိဟင္ဂ်ာဒုကၡသည္မ်ား။ (ဇြန္ ၂၅၊ ၂၀၂၀)

အင္ဒုိနီးရွားႏုိင္ငံအထိ ေလွစီးေျပး ေရာက္လာၾကတဲ့ ႐ုိဟင္ဂ်ာဒုကၡသည္ ၁၀၀ နီးပါးကို ေဒသခံ တံငါ သည္ ေတြ ကယ္တင္ခဲ့ၿပီး ေလာေလာဆယ္ အာဏာပုိင္ေတြက ေနစရာေပး ေစာင့္ေရွာက္ထားသလို ကုိဗစ္ေရာဂါ ပုိး ရွိမရွိ စစ္ေဆးေနတဲ့အေၾကာင္း AFP သတင္းကုိ အေျခခံၿပီး ကိုဉာဏ္ဝင္းေအာင္ တင္ျပထားပါတယ္။

၄ လနီးပါးၾကာ ပင္လယ္ျပင္ခရီးကုိ ႏွင္လာခဲ့ၾကတဲ့ ႐ုိဟင္ဂ်ာဒုကၡသည္ေတြဟာ ၿပီးခဲ့တဲ့ သီတင္းပတ္ထဲ အင္ ဒုိနီးရွားႏိုင္ငံ အာေခ်းျပည္နယ္ ကမ္း႐ုိးတန္းနားမွာ တဝဲလည္လည္ ျဖစ္ေနခဲ့တာပါ။ ကုိ႐ုိနာဗိုင္းရပ္စ္ အႏၱ ရာယ္ေၾကာင့္ ေဒသအာဏာပုိင္ေတြ သူတို႔ကို အင္ဒုိနီးရွားထဲ အဝင္မခံဘဲ ျငင္းဆန္ေနခ်ိန္မွာ လူသားခ်င္း စာနာစိတ္နဲ႔ အာဏာပုိင္ေတြအေပၚ ေဒါသထြက္ေနၾကတဲ့ Lhokseumawe ၿမဳိ႕ခံ တံငါသည္ေတြက ခေနာ္နီခ ေနာ္နဲ႔ ျဖစ္ေနတဲ့ ႐ုိဟင္ဂ်ာေလွကို ကမ္းစပ္အထိ ဆဲြတင္ခဲ့ၾကတာပါ။

Covid-19: UK pledges to help BD, Rohingyas

dailyobserver

 Thursday, 25 June, 2020

UK International Development Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan has said they are strongly committed to helping Bangladesh and the Rohingya people through this devastating crisis.

She came on a virtual visit to Bangladesh on Wednesday and saw how UK aid is working with the government of Bangladesh to tackle coronavirus in the country.

The UK has dedicated at least £21 million to tackle coronavirus in Bangladesh, where 120,000 cases have been reported.

'Most Rohingyas unaware of Covid-19' -The Asian Age

THE ASIAN AGE
Kazi Nazrul Islam Ave, Dhaka 1215
25th June 2020

Most of the Rohingyas living in Cox's Bazar camps are not aware of Covid-19 and its intensity, according to a survey jointly conducted by KNH Germany and Samaj Kallyan O Unnayon Sangstha (SKUS).

The survey report released on Thursday, said Rohingyas have misconception about Covid-19. Particularly, women and children in the camps are most vulnerable to the disease, said the survey report.

Rohingyas have no clear information about the deadly disease, if said. KNH Germany and SKUS revealed the report on the survey, at a Meet the Press at Dhaka Reporters Unity, reports UNB.

The report recommended taking massive awareness programme in camps to reduce the risk of spreading the coronavirus pandemic among Rohingya population as soon as possible.On May 14, two Rohingyas tested positive for Covid-19 for first time in the world's largest camp for displaced population.

UK minister urged to mount pressure on Myanmar over Rohingya on virtual Bangladesh visit

bdnews24.com
Staff Correspondent,
25 Jun 2020

Bangladesh has once again called on the UK to exert and increase pressure on Myanmar for solving the Rohingya crisis urgently through sustainable repatriation of the Rohingya refugees to Rakhine.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen and UK International Development Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan discussed the issue during her “virtual visit” to Bangladesh on Wednesday.

ေမာင္ေတာမွာ ကိုဗစ္ကူးစက္သူတဦး ထပ္ေတြ႔

VOA
ဗြီအိုေအ (ျမန္မာပုိင္း)

24 ဇြန္၊ 2020 

ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕ရွိ Quarantine စင္တာတခုအတြင္းတြင္ ေတြ႔ရတဲ့ ၀တ္စံုျပည့္၀တ္ထားတဲ့ ၀န္ထမ္းတဦး။ (ဧၿပီ ၀၉၊ ၂၀၂၀)

ရခုိင္ျပည္နယ္ ေမာင္ေတာၿမိဳ႕နယ္မွာ COVID-19 ေရာဂါကူးစက္ေနသူ အမ်ဳိးသားတဦးကုိ က်န္းမာေရးနဲ႔ အားကစား၀န္ႀကီးဌာနက ဒီေန႔ပဲ အတည္ျပဳလုိက္တဲ့အတြက္ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံမွာ စုစုေပါင္းေရာဂါကူးစက္သူ ၂၉၃ ေယာက္ ရွိသြားပါၿပီ။ 

Monsoon may worsen already precarious situation in Rohingya camps: UN, aid agencies

The Daily Star
Star Online Report
June 23, 2020 

UN and other aid agencies are concerned that the monsoon will exacerbate an already precarious situation in the Rohingya camps where almost 860,000 refugees live in overcrowded conditions, many situated in hazardous terrain.

The monsoon, with heavy rains in the past few days, brings contamination of drinking water sources and raises increased risk of water-borne disease outbreaks in the camps and adjacent Bangladeshi communities, on top of the Covid-19 pandemic, they said.