Bangladesh reports coronavirus cases in Rohingya camp

Prothum Alo------ 

Reuters Dhaka
14 May 2020,

Rohingya refugees gather at a market inside a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on 7 March 2019Reuters file photo

The novel coronavirus has been detected in one of the camps in southern Bangladesh that are home to more than a million Rohingyas, officials said on Thursday, as humanitarian groups warned that the infection could devastate the crowded settlement.

An ethnic Rohingya refugee and another person have tested positive for COVID-19, a senior Bangladeshi official and a UN spokeswoman said. It was the first confirmed case in the camps, which are more densely populated than most crowded cities on earth.

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Malaysia: Hundreds of Rohingya seeking safety by boat at acute risk from coronavirus

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
Source :Amnesty
10 April 2020

The Malaysian authorities should ensure that the 202 Rohingya people found adrift off the country’s coast are spared the risk of mass infection in detention facilities, said Amnesty International Malaysia today.

The group is currently in 14-day quarantine in response to the outbreak of COVID-19.

“The government must ensure adequate protection for these Rohingya people, who are in desperate need of safety from both persecution and illness,” said Preethi Bhardwaj, Amnesty International Malaysia’s Interim Executive Director.

UN issues its first coronavirus resolution as global cases surpass 1 million

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FRANCE 24
03/04/2020

(FILE PHOTO) Secretary-General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres speaks at the UN headquarters in New York. © Bryan R. Smith, AFP file picture 

 

The UN General Assembly on Thursday approved a resolution calling for "international cooperation" and "multilateralism" in the fight against Covid-19, in the first text to come out of the international body since the outbreak began.

The resolution, which was approved by consensus, also stresses "the need for full respect for human rights" and that "there is no place for any form of discrimination, racism and xenophobia in the response to the pandemic".

Coronavirus and Rohingya Refugee Camps

THE I DIPLOMAT

By Ana Salvá

March 30, 2020

The first confirmed case in Cox’s Bazar, on March 24, is a serious concern for aid workers. 

As countries close their borders and ask their citizens to stay home to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, aid organizations warn that the impact of the virus on the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh “could be enormous.” On March 24, the first case was confirmed in the local community in Cox’s Bazar, and it is now only matter of time until the virus reaches the camps, exposing the most vulnerable.

The so-called “social distancing” many countries are practicing to prevent COVID-19 seems a cruel joke to the million-plus Rohingyas who live in the overcrowded refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar. Most of them fled the Myanmar Army-led attacks in 2016 and 2017, and at present, are living in poor conditions without access to clean water or adequate sanitation, making them especially at risk of an outbreak.

Coronavirus panic grips Rohingya camps in Bangladesh

Aljazeera
2020.03.26

Experts say vulnerable populations such as the Rohingya will likely be disproportionately affected by COVID-19.

Rohingya refugees, without wearing any mask or any other safety gear, gather along a market area in Kutupalong refugee camp [Suzauddin Rubel/AFP] 

Experts and activists have warned that about one million Rohingya refugees living in the crowded and cramped camps in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar are vulnerable to coronavirus infections.

First coronavirus case confirmed in Cox's Bazar, near world's largest refugee camp

CNN

March 25, 2020

Rebecca Wright and journalist Salman Saeed 

People cross a stream in a Rohingya refugee camp on January 23 in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. Allison Joyce/Getty Images

The first case of coronavirus has been confirmed in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.

According to the United Nations refugee agency, a local Bangladeshi woman was confirmed to be positive on Tuesday afternoon local time.

The hospital in the town of Cox’s Bazar is around one hour’s drive from sprawling camps which are home to nearly one million Rohingya refugees.

COVID-19 ကာကြယ္ေရး ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာစခန္းေတြ ျပင္ဆင္

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ဗြီအိုုေအ (ျမန္မာဌာန)

21 မတ္၊ 2020
မဆုမြန္

ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ႏုိင္ငံ ေကာ့ဇ္ဘဇားရွိ ကုတုပေလာင္ ဒုကၡသည္စခန္းတြင္ ဆုေတာင္းပြဲက်င္းပေနသည့္ ႐ုိဟင္ဂ်ာဒုကၡသည္မ်ား။ (ၾသဂုတ္ ၂၅၊ ၂၀၁၉)

ရခိုင္အၾကမ္းဖက္ပဋိပကၡေတြေၾကာင့္ ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ဘက္ ထြက္ေျပးတိမ္းေရွာင္သြားၾကတဲ့ သိန္းခ်ီတဲ့ ႐ို ဟင္ဂ်ာ ဒုကၡသည္ေတြထဲ ကမာၻ႔ကပ္ေရာဂါ COVID-19 ကို႐ိုနာဗိုင္းရပ္စ္ ကူးစက္ပ်ံ႕ႏွွံ႔မႈမရွိေအာင္ ကမာၻ႔ က်န္းမာေရးအဖြဲ႔ (WHO) အပါအဝင္ ကုလသမဂၢ အဖြဲ႔အစည္းေတြနဲ႔ ဒုကၡသည္ဆုိင္ရာ ႏုိင္ငံတကာ NGO အဖြဲ႔ေတြက အထူးက်န္းမာေရး ပညာေပးလုပ္ငန္းေတြ ေဆာင္ရြက္ေနတယ္လို႔ ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ဒုကၡသည္ေတြက ေျပာပါတယ္။ ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ႏုိင္ငံက ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာဒုကၡသည္စခန္းေတြတုိင္းမွာ ဘာသာေရး စာသင္ေက်ာင္း ေတြနဲ႔ ျမန္မာစာသင္ေက်ာင္းေတြကို ပိတ္ထားလိုက္သလို ဒုကၡသည္ေတြ တကိုယ္ေရသန္႔ရွင္းေရး အေလး ထားဖို႔၊ လက္မၾကာခနေဆးဖို႔၊ လူထူထပ္တဲ့ ေနရာေတြကို မစုေဝးၾကဖို႔ အပါအဝင္ နာမက်န္းျဖစ္လာရင္ အ ၿမန္ဆံုး ေဆး႐ံုေဆးေပးခန္းေတြကို အေၾကာင္းၾကားၾကဖို႔ ဒုကၡသည္စခန္း တာဝန္ရွိသူေတြကလည္း သ တိ ေပး ေျပာၾကားေနၾကတာပါ။ အျပည့္အစုံကုိ မဆုမြန္က ဆက္သြယ္ေမးျမန္း တင္ျပထားပါတယ္။

‘None of Us Have a Fear of Corona’: The Faithful at an Outbreak’s Center

The New York Times

By Hannah Beech
March 20, 2020

A gathering of 16,000 at a Malaysian mosque became the pandemic’s largest known vector in Southeast Asia, spreading the coronavirus to half a dozen countries. 

A mosque in the Philippines run by Tablighi Jamaat, an Islamic missionary movement. A Tablighi Jamaat gathering in Malaysia has been linked to hundreds of coronavirus infections.Credit...Jes Aznar for The New York Times

 

BANGKOK — The faithful prayed by the thousands, hands and faces washed at communal taps to signify their purity. They crowded around platters on the floor, scooping up coconut rice with their right hands in the traditional way. And they slept in the mosque or in tents set up in the religious compound, rows of pilgrims from nearly 30 countries, gathered in Malaysia for spiritual renewal.

ကိုရိုနာကူးစက္လာမွာကို ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ဒုကၡသည္စခန္း ေတြက ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြ စိုးရိမ္ေန

လြတ္လပ္တဲ့အာရွအသံ ( RFA ) 
ျမန္မာဌာန | သတင္းမ်ား
2020-03-20

လူ သိန္းနဲ႔ခ်ီေနထိုင္ေနၾကတဲ့ ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္နိုင္ငံက ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာဒုကၡသည္စခန္းေတြမွာ ကိုရိုနာဗိုင္းရပ္စ္ ကူး စက္ ခံရမယ့္အေရး စိုးရိမ္ေနၾကတယ္လို႔ RFA က ဆက္သြယ္ေမးျမန္းခဲ့တဲ့ ဒုကၡသည္ေတြက ေျပာပါတယ္။

အဲ့ဒီဒုကၡသည္စခန္းေတြမွာ အင္တာနက္လည္းျဖတ္ေတာက္ထားတဲ့အတြက္ ကိုရိုနာနဲ႔ပတ္သက္တဲ့သတင္း အခ်က္အလက္ေတြလည္းရဖို႔ ခက္ခဲေနတယ္လို႔ ဆိုပါတယ္။

အျပည့္အစုံ RFA ဝိုင္းေတာ္သား ေစာဖိုးခြားက တင္ျပထားပါတယ္။

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Coronavirus fear grips Rohingya camps in Bangladesh

AA
Md. Kamruzzaman
DHAKA, Bangladesh
13.03.2020

Displaced community's vulnerable conditions breeding ground for infections  

Years-long ordeal and the tireless struggle for survival have made Master Abdur Rahim adept to deal with potential disasters.

He, however, is worried about what lays in store for him and nearly a million other Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The virus, which has killed nearly 5,000 people in 118 countries and territories, reached Bangladesh last week.

Although only three COVID-19 cases have so far been confirmed in the Muslim-majority South Asian nation, refugees in the southern Cox's Bazar district are distressed.

What is being done to prevent coronavirus outbreak in Rohingya camps?

Dhaka Tribune 

Humayun Kabir Bhuiyan
March 13th, 2020

File photo of Rohingya refugees at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhiya, Cox’s Bazar Syed Zakir Hossain/Dhaka Tribune

Officials putting great emphasis on prevention, as spread of infection will be difficult to contain

Health officials in Cox’s Bazar Rohingya camps are putting precautionary plans into action to prevent a potential Covid-19 outbreak, as the world faces a pandemic.

Both the government and the international agencies are putting great emphasis on placing preventive measures in the refugee camps, since it will be very difficult to deal with a situation that may arise from any infection, officials told Dhaka Tribune.