coronavirus in Bangladesh

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News
11 August 2021
Bangladesh begins Covid-19 vaccinations for Rohingya refugees
People disembark from a ferry to return to work as the Bangladesh government relaxed the lockdown for all export oriented factories (Photo: Munir Uz zaman/AFP)
Business
03 August 2021
Bangladeshis rush back to work as factories...
Hundreds of thousands of Bangladeshi garment workers rushed back to major cities Saturday...
(File) A Rohingya refugee people walks on a road along the makeshift camp in Ukhia, Cox's Bazar district, Bangladesh, 30 July 2020. Photo: EPA
News
19 May 2021
UN seeks nearly $1 billion for refugee crisis
The UN on Tuesday appealed for $943 million to cope with the Rohingya humanitarian crisis...
(FILES) In this file photo taken on May 15, 2020 Rohingya refugees gather at a market as first cases of COVID-19 coronavirus have emerged in the area, in Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia. Photo: AFP
News
03 June 2020
First refugee dies from coronavirus in Bangladesh
A 71-year-old man has become the first Rohingya living in vast refugee camps in...
There have long been warnings the coronavirus could race like wildfire through the sprawling city of shacks housing nearly a million Rohingya in southeast Bangladesh (AFP Photo/Suzauddin RUBEL)
News
17 May 2020
Race to prevent coronavirus 'nightmare...
Emergency teams are racing to prevent a coronavirus "nightmare" in the world's largest...
Bangladesh security personnel patrol inside a camp as Rohingya refugees buy groceries from shops during the lockdown of Cox's Bazar district (AFP Photo/Mohammad Kalam)
News
15 May 2020
First COVID-19 case found in refugee camps in...
A Rohingya man has become the first person to test positive for COVID-19 in the vast...
An armed policeman walks by the gate near Taungpyo Bangladesh-Myanmar border entrance in Maungdaw district, Rakhine State of western Myanmar. Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA
News
15 April 2020
Border crossings through Myanmar-Bangladesh...
Myanmar announced restrictions on border crossing through Myanmar-Bangladesh border gates...
Rohingya refugees walk near closed shops on a deserted alley of a refugee camp during a government-imposed lockdown of Cox's Bazar district as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Ukhia on April 9, 2020. (AFP Photo/Mohammad Kalam)
News
12 April 2020
Refugee camps in Bangladesh put under '...
Bangladesh has imposed a "complete lockdown" in Cox's Bazar district -- home to over a...
Rohingya refugees gather in a market area of the Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh on March 24, 2020 -- "social distancing" to protect against the coronavirus pandemic is "virtually impossible", an NGO said (AFP/File / SUZAUDDIN RUBEL)
News
26 March 2020
Virus panic grips refugee camps in Bangladesh
The sewage-soaked alleys and cramped canvas and bamboo shacks that house one million...