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[ 17th May 2021, Bangladesh ]  At the same time, almost 95% of government employees working in port areas have already been vaccinated for Covid 19. However, general labourers, who handle goods, are yet to be vaccinated properly, a factor which has become another reason for alarm. On April 26 this year, Bangladesh closed its borders with India for 14 days for travellers, but goods laden vehicles were allowed to operate as usual. The ban was extended later.
[ Jan  Jul 2020, Bangladesh ]  Refugee Rumors, misinformation and gaps in access to information, and the reduced presence of humanitarian actors in the refugee camps during the COVID 19 response have resulted in mistrust of health services and humanitarian actors
[ Jan  Jul 2020, Bangladesh ]  Refugee Scale up life skills and pre vocational courses for adolescents based on the Youth Skills Development Framework and increase participation of adolescents and youths.
[ Jan  Jul 2020, Bangladesh ]  Refugee Another key objective is to introduce more durable materials to improve the lifespan of the shelters, especially while regular distributions continue to be limited by the COVID 19 pandemic
[ 8th  14th February 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  Eleven temperature screening and hygiene promotion points in the camps were functional during the reporting period. A total of 38,280 individuals have been screened during this time. As points of entry activities are taken over by regular hygiene promotion and health education activities, the dedicated points of entry are being stood down across the camps.
[ Jan  Jul 2020, Bangladesh ]  Refugee  Negative health seeking behaviours for routine health services have grown due to fear of COVID 19
[ 4th May 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  Refugees: Another three and a half thousand Rohingyas from Ukhia and Teknaf are going to Bhasanchar in Noakhali in the fifth phase of the transfer. A bus carrying Rohingyas will leave for Chittagong on Tuesday or Wednesday.2200 Rohingyas moved to Chattogram bound for Bhasan Char. Another 1762 Rohingyas have left the camp today for Bhasan Char.
[ Jan  Jul 2020, Bangladesh ]  Refugee Women and girls, as well as transgender persons and persons with disabilities, have less access to information in the camps, and face additional barriers in accessing some health services, due to the restrictive nature of social norms and social stigma.
[ Jan  Jul 2020, Bangladesh ]  Refugee The lack of a sustainable waste management system remains a critical gap.
[ 30th April 2021, Bangladesh ]  Following the government guidance and instruction, with effect from 0001 BST on 1 st May 2021 until further notice, schedule passenger flights between Dhaka and some selected countries shall resume operation as per their approved time slots under Summer 2021 schedule. Mentionable that Air Bubble flights will remain suspended until further notice.
[ 21st Dec 2020, Bangladesh ]  The government plans to start the first phase of vaccination as soon as the first batch from India arrives, said Secretary Islam before adding the second phase may start in May or June.
[ 27th May 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  A survey conducted by Women's Refugee Commission reveals that some refugee men and boys in Ukhiya have been subjected to sexual abuse, violence and exploitation in Myanmar and again in the camps, which is likely to cause persistent physical and mental health problems.
[ November 2020, Cox's Bazar ]  Cargo including tarpaulins, masks and cement were received from IFRC, Migrant Offshore Aid Station  ( MOAS )  and Site Maintenance and Engineering Project  ( SMEP ) , and school bags, school in a boxes, Mama Kits and cement were dispatched for United Nations Children's Fund  ( UNICEF ) , Research, Training and Management International  ( RTMI )  and SMEP.
[ 1th   30th November 2020, Bangladesh ]   The ETS is 74% funded with US$3.8 million received out of US$5.1 million required for 2020. COVID 19 restrictions continue to impact operations, with staff currently in quarantine and limited field movements.
[ Jan  Jul 2020, Bangladesh ]  Refugee The need to scale up life skills and pre vocational courses for Rohingya adolescents based on the Youth Skills Development Framework remains a critical priority. Diversified skills development for refugees is needed to increase livelihoods, production and engagement with camp and local markets.
[ 28th March 2021, Bangladesh ]  Teknaf Upazila in Cox's Bazar has been facing challenges in ensuring safe access to water for the local population for many years. The situation became even more challenging following the influx of Rohingya forced to flee from Myanmar in recent years. This contribution will help to stabilize the water supply, and to improve the living conditions of both communities.
[ Jan  Jul 2020, Bangladesh ]  Refugee Child Protection 1. Strengthen and support community based child protection structures. 2. Identify girls and boys at risk to receive specialized age and gender sensitive child protection services through individual case management to meet their unique needs.
[ Jan  Jul 2020, Bangladesh ]  Refugee KEY PRIORITIES TO THE END OF 2020Maintain continuity of health services across the full spectrum of health service delivery and referral system  ( from community, primary, secondary and tertiary level ) , while managing the response needs of the COVID 19 outbreak.
[ Jan  Jul 2020, Bangladesh ]  Refugee Insufficient staffing in integrated nutrition facilities was a barrier to providing a full range of essential nutrition services, including BSFP. COVID 19 modified nutrition approaches cannot ensure the required level of service coverage and accessibility
[ Jan  Jul 2020, Bangladesh ]  Refugee KEY PRIORITIES TO THE END OF 2020 1. Maintain critical activities, including emergency response, LPG refills, and assistance to shelters that have not received assistance for one year or longer
[ October 2020, Cox's Bazar ]  In October, implementing partners continued disseminating messages on COVID 19 prevention, food safety, waste management, and hygienic practices. Partner organizations conducted a total of 177,084 household sessions, reaching 243,153 beneficiaries, and 4,080 awareness raising sessions using megaphones, reaching an estimated 156,439 beneficiaries.
[ Jan  Jul 2020, Bangladesh ]  Refugee KEY PRIORITIES TO THE END OF 2020 Protection: Enhance access to justice through community based approaches, including through community representation, community safety programmes, and standardized mediation. Continue to strengthen community based structures through community engagement and capacity building to enhance individual and community resilience, taking into account an AGD approach.
[ Jan  Jul 2020, Bangladesh ]  Refugee KEY PRIORITIES TO THE END OF 2020Enhance communication with communities at all levels  ( individual, community, and health facility )  to foster trustbuilding and improved access to health services, including responding to the COVID 19 outbreak.
[ Jan  Jul 2020, Bangladesh ]  Refugee KEY PRIORITIES TO THE END OF 2020: 2. Provide additional shelter/NFI assistance to support households with pressing shelter/NFI needs and to decrease further deterioration of shelters. 3. Implement cyclone preparedness and response activities, which become the utmost priority in the event of a cyclone.
[ 29th Nov 2020, Bangladesh ]  Bangladesh reported 29 deaths in the past 24 hours, taking the country's fatalities to 6,609.The death rate stood at 1.43%, said the Directorate General of Health Services. Also, 1,788 new cases were reported at that time, bringing the total to 462,407.So far, 378,172 patients – 81.78% – including 2,287 new ones in the last 24 hours have recovered.
[ Jan  Jul 2020, Bangladesh ]  Refugee KEY PRIORITIES TO THE END OF 2020 Protection: Implement a protection monitoring framework in order to ensure evidence based advocacy efforts and an inclusive rights based approach which addresses the specific protection challenges of persons with specific needs, while strengthening peaceful co existence between host and refugee communities and enhancing alternative dispute mechanisms, as well as legal services to address protection risks and case management associated with housing, land and property  ( HLP ) ; human trafficking; and other legal protection issues.
[ Jan  Jul 2020, Bangladesh ]  Refugee KEY PRIORITIES TO THE END OF 2020 1. Sustain critical assistance to refugees, providing access to various and nutritious foods, and increase support for their self reliance. 2. Reinforce and complement Government of Bangladesh social safety net interventions to mitigate the impact on food security and livelihoods of vulnerable Bangladeshis, including data management support to target assistance and avoid duplications, and promoting market linkages and economic interactions between refugee and host communities. 3. Improve camp and field level coordination, and strengthen community engagement, AAP, and gender and protection mainstreaming.
[ Jan  Jul 2020, Bangladesh ]  Refugee KEY PRIORITIES TO THE END OF 2020 1. Continue increased levels of coordination and interaction between partners in the Sector forum, to identify and resolve constraints through a collaborative effort. 2. Maintain information management and communication platforms to compile and share updates on relevant common logistics information updates, such as sea/airport, transport, storage, access, and import. 3. Maintain common services, specifically strategically located COVID 19 response material storage space, local transportation of emergency medical supplies and facilitation of camp access for humanitarian workers.
[ 29th Nov 2020, Bangladesh ]  According to the children  [ At the conference room of the Deputy Commissioner's Office on Johnson Road in Dhaka, 20 children from the Children's Forum of ‘Shishuder Jonno' living in Rayerbazar and Chand Udyan areas talked to Deputy Commissioner Mohammad Shahidul Islam for about two hours about the problems of disadvantaged children in the area and the capital. ]  present there, the educational institutions have been closed for nine months and the children are turning away from formal education.
[ 29th Nov 2020, Bangladesh In the Chand Udyan area of Rayerbazar, children have been used in drug trafficking for a long time, which is still happening.
[ 27th May 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  Lack of access to WASH can affect a child's nutritional status in many ways. WASH may also impact nutritional status indirectly by necessitating walking long distances in search of water and sanitation facilities and diverting a mother's time away from childcare.
[ 27th May 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  WASH and nutrition field staffs also report poor hygiene practices during complimentary feeding or meal preparation. In areas where there's not 100% coverage of water supply, utensils are often washed without soap and with water used for “domestic purposes', such as water that might not be safe for drinking
[ 20th December 2020, Bangladesh ]  Learners, especially students living in remote areas such as Moheshkhali, Chakaria and Ramu, have not been able to take advantage of government online classes. They say poor internet provision is a problem. Moreover, the financial instability their families are facing make internet packages and devices such as smart phones and laptops unaffordable. Community feedback from Noakhali suggests that students who don't have smart phones depend on community radio stations which broadcast Bangladesh Betar  ( the national public broadcaster of Bangladesh )
[ Jan  Jul 2020, Bangladesh ]  Refugee Gender Based Violence 1. Continue to strengthen community based approaches to mitigate and respond to GBV by leveraging Women Centres, WGSS, and WFS, once re opened and related activities are able to be resumed, as well as community networks to mitigate GBV risks, while empowering women through skills training and vocational training.
[ Jan  Jul 2020, Bangladesh ]  Refugee KEY PRIORITIES Protection Promote the centrality of protection in order to ensure a conducive protection environment through a whole of system approach that: • integrates AGD principles throughout the response and ensures that the principles of “Do No Harm' and “Leave No One Behind' are the foundations of all sectoral activities, • places refugees at the centre of the response through a rights based community approach that promotes community representation mechanisms across camps, community feedback mechanisms and PSEA, and, • institutionalizes protection and accountability principles by building the capacity of administrative, judicial and law enforcement authorities, prioritizes access to formal and informal justice mechanisms, safety and security, and leverages the complementarity of humanitarian and development initiatives
[ Jan  Jul 2020, Bangladesh ]  Refugee 1. “Back to learning' in the context of the COVID 19 pandemic: Re open learning centres and resume education interventions, including appropriate guidance, safety measures, and community sensitization on safety and security related to sending children to learning centres; introduce a “shift system' to reduce the number of children in learning centres at any given time; and continue at home caregiver led education until learning centres open for regular education activities and distribute learning materials  ( i.e., exercise books, workbooks and supplementary worksheets, along with age appropriate early childhood development play kits )  along with orientation.
[ 27th May 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  Access to latrines increased significantly by 36%. Increase of 21% of people cleaning their latrines on a regular basis. Increase in access to private spaces for menstrual hygiene management. 15% increase in regular handwashing and strong increase in frequency of handwashing with soap. 45% increase of participants using chlorinated water.
[ 10th December 2020, Bangladesh ]  The country's largest trade body for garment owners in August said at least 70,000 garment workers had lost their jobs, but unions think the true figure is likely far higher.
[ 25th March 2021, Bangladesh Cox's Bazar ]  Need to scale up MHPSS and PFA support for children affected by the fire • Separated children and children unaccounted for remains one of the biggest concerns for the CPSS, requiring more human resources and scaling up of FTR activities. The longer children are separated, the less likely reunification and the more burdensome the verification process becomes as children face higher risk of protection concerns.
[ Jan  Jul 2020, Bangladesh ]  Refugee Increase options for accessing education and life skills, such as alternative solutions for continuation of education in emergency situations, such as online and offline tech based distance learning; introduce alternate teaching and learning through available technology alternatives that children can use at home  ( i.e., telephones, tablets, prerecorded radio instructions, etc. ) ; scale up the planned double story learning centre construction activities to ensure more learning spaces are available for children; and once learning centres re open, expedite the implementation of the MCP with a focus on inclusive education.
[ 20th December 2020, Bangladesh ]  Feedback shows that some adolescent boys are taking out their frustration by misbehaving. Feedback from Dhaka, Chattogram and Narayanganj indicate many boys are inclining towards watching pornography and posting or writing provocative or improper sexually explicit comments or texts messages for bullying and harassing girls on social media. Incidents of both Facebook and in person bullying seem to have increased. Girls are bearing the brunt of this harassment.
[ 20th December 2020, Bangladesh ]  Because of the pandemic, the income of adolescents with physical disabilities and their families have also decreased. Those who have ability to work and those who have not, both are being dependent on their families. Besides the pandemic, loss of earnings due to seasonal flooding and heavy rainfall have made it challenging for these families to meet the additional requirements of adolescents with disabilities; they now, more than ever, need financial support from the government.
[ 1st Jan  30th June 2021, Bangladesh ]  UNICEF and the Department of Public Health Engineering provided 171,520 people  ( 94,720 female )  with access to safe water and 101,760 people  ( 49,920 female )  with functional latrines. 58 water connections have been repaired to ensure water supplies to handwashing stations, benefitting 30,000 slum dwellers with access to handwashing facilities in Dhaka city. The main challenge is that slum dwellers/low income community people are not fully aware of benefits of washing hands and mask wearing.
[ 20th December 2020, Bangladesh ]  Community feedback from Dhaka, Chattogram, Narayanganj, Noakhali, Bagerhat, and Bandarban suggests that people have lost their jobs  ( across professions )  and the loss of family income has had a detrimental effect on the lives of adolescents
[ 26th November 2020, Bangladesh ]  According to the survey, 75 per cent of Dhaka's population believes that it is not possible to travel in public transportation and maintain physical/social distancing at the same time. On the other hand, very few individuals can afford a private car.At the same time, Bangladesh's humid and dusty weather coupled with rain makes it difficult for office goers and students to use bicycles. In which case, motorcycles and scooters have gained the most amount of acceptance in terms of safe transportation to use during the pandemic.
[ 10th Dec 2020, Bangladesh ]  Talking to UNB, Dr Abu Jamil Faisel, a member of the public health expert team for the eight divisions formed by the government, said Bangladesh must take necessary preparations in advance for procuring the vaccine, its preservation and distribution. “As I know, three expert teams, formed by the Health Ministry, have been working out a plan and policy in this regard,' he said.
[ March 21, 2021, Bangladesh ] :The infection rate rose to 10.29 percent which was 09.39 percent a day earlier.
[ 6th June 2021, Bangladesh ]  The authorities concerned have issued red alert in the bordering areas of the district but allegations have been found that people are still crossing borders illegally in the night.
[ 1 June 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  Hydraulic modelling4 overlaid on the January 2019 shelter footprint indicated that around 2,100 structures5 were at risk of significant flooding from a one in ten year rainfall event across the whole of camps 8W, 8E and 9. Approximately 1,070 of these were in the fire affected area
[ 6th June 2021, Bangladesh ]  According to the health authorities, a total of 339 people have been found infected with the virus in the district. Of them, 27 are undergoing treatment at Satkhira Medical College and Hospital, 26 at Sadar hospital while the rest 286 are taking treatment at home. So far, a total of 48 people have died of Covid 19 in the district while 250 people died with Covid 19 symptoms.
[ 27th May 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  Recently, it has been reported an increased stigma against transgender persons is occurring because social discrimination against them is based on the perception that that they are spreading coronavirus. Also in WASH programming, the understanding and the inclusion of nonbinary genders is almost not existent.
[ 1 June 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  Prior to the fire, landslides were a common occurrence within the camps  ( Figure 5 )  and according to landslide maps, the northern area of Camp 9 had a high number of structures exposed to this hazard. The fire is likely to have intensified this risk as almost three quarters of structures in the three camps were within the fire affected area
[ 27th May 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  Most of the publications focus on the challenges transgender people face when accessing public toilets or other communal facilities, which include verbal abuse, physical and sexual assault, denial of access, arrest and expulsion. Problems identified include being harassed and abused in men's toilets, feared and ridiculed in women's toilets, suspected of sex work when using public toilets or denied access to public toilets altogether.
[ 14 June 2021, Bangladesh ]  The highest number of weekly cases  ( 47 392 )  reported in the epi week 14, 2021  ( 05 11 APR ) , and the highest daily cases 7 626 was recorded on 07 April 2021. The highest weekly death  ( 668 )  was recorded in week 16, 2021  ( 19 25 APR ) , with the highest daily death of 112 on 19 April 2021. In the reported week, COVID 19 daily average cases increased to 2 276 from 1 737 in the week before
[ 30th January 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  Host: In the host community, a higher proportion of people who live close to the health facility and close to mosques, feel informed about Covid 19.
[ 1 June 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  Vegetation and Canopy Cover: Vegetation: Drone images of the fire affected area visibly capture the loss of vegetation cover  ( Figure 7 ) . Camps 9, 8W and 8E were densely populated prior to the fire and were dominated by shelters and soil and vegetation were already impacted by human activities. Vegetation was, however, present between shelters and in plantation zones. IOM calculates 8.11 hectares of vegetation was lost due to the fire.
[ 25 31 May 2021, Bangladesh ]  In Bangladesh, tidal surge combined with the collapse of embankments flooded low lying coastal areas in the districts of Satkhira, Khulna, Bhola, Patuakhali and Borguna, leaving at least four people dead, displacing about 15,000 people across 200 villages, and damaging or destroying thousands of houses, farm land and fish enclosures.
[ 28th March 2021,Bangladesh ]  The notification further said that the students have to abide by the health guidelines and regulations issued by the Ministry of Health and the Directorate General of Health Services  ( DGHS ) . Previously the Education Ministry had declared that they would open the educational institutions at the end of this month, but the recent surge of Covid 19 cases led them to reconsider the decision.
[ 27th May 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  Refugees: Hence, it is clear that for many Rohingya women, the experiences of puberty coincide with the immediate cessation of access to public spaces. Many families reported distress and anxiety over younger, unmarried daughters in their families. Here, it is apparent that menstruation is considered something that makes women vulnerable to possession by djinn who might make them go mad and force them to “do things' that might compromise their honor.
[ 17th June 2021, Bangladesh ]  Meanwhile, three more Covid patients died at Satkhira Medical College and Hospital in the past 24 hours. Health authorities recorded 88 new Covid cases after testing 186 samples during this time. The positivity rate reached 47.31% while total number of coronavirus cases in the district climbed to 2,669 with the fresh cases. At least 255 people have died in the district so far with coronavirus symptoms.
[ 25th July 2021, Bangladesh ]  In a statement, party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said: “People are dying for lack of treatment and vaccine while the unplanned lockdown enforced by the government is jeopardising the lives of low income people.' He said many needy people are starving for lack of food and money. “Even, some people are choosing the path of suicide facing such a great difficulty.'
[ 28th March 2021,Bangladesh ]  In the last few days the daily Covid 19 cases have been above 3,500 with deaths rising significantly too. In the 24 hours till Sunday, 3,908 people have been infected with Covid 19 while 35 died of the disease.
[ 17th June 2021, Bangladesh ]  Amid an alarming surge in Covid 19 cases in Satkhira, authorities have once again extended the ongoing lockdown by one more week.
[ 14 June 2021, Bangladesh ]  According to DGHS, as of 13 June 2021, the country's current institutional quarantine capacity is represented by 629 centres across the 64 districts, receiving 31 991 persons. A total of 65 558 individuals were placed in quarantine facilities, and 60 636  ( 92% )  of them have already been released. Over the same period, a total of 146 787 individuals were isolated in designated health facilities, and 122 169  ( 83% )  of them were released.
[ 15th June 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  Refugees: In Bhasan Char, these migrants face food shortages, inadequate healthcare, informal education, and few employment options, Human Rights Watch said in a new report.
[ 1st December 2020, Bangladesh ]  Besides, the health authorities detected 2,525 new cases across the country during the period, taking the total to 464,932.
[ 14 June 2021, Bangladesh ]  During the reporting week, no positive case was identified at the IHR designated PoE of the country. Out of the individuals sent to Institutional Quarantine after passenger screening at the active PoE during the week, 56% travelled from Oman, 23% from India, 16% from Kuwait, 2% from Nepal, 1% from UAE, and the remaining 2% from other countries
[ 27th May 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  During floods or tidal surges inundate tube wells, ponds and water bodies and contaminate the natural sources of fresh water. People in the affected communities are often forced use unsafe water. Also, latrines are, if set up on low grounds, easily collapse or get heavily damaged, leaving people no other options but to go for open defecation. Such crisis in safe water supply and sanitation service severely disrupts hygiene practices.
[ 27 May 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  Give Rohingya women more opportunities to lead culturally sensitive workshops for others in their community: Having Rohingya women lead the workshops and support in the design of the curriculum resulted in participants opening up to the facilitators to share personal stories and interact with the information. At the end of the workshop series, participants expressed excitement that they now have the knowledge and the con dence to share information regarding puberty and menstruation with other females in their family.
[ 27th May 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  Despite 84% of households reporting using pit latrines in the camps 9 and acceptable quantitative standards reached  ( 18 persons per latrine and 37 persons per bathing cubicle ) , many qualitative challenges remain with 22%11 of sanitation infrastructures requiring O&M. Sanitation coverage remains challenging due to lack of space in the camps with the highest density  ( e.g.: 1E, 1W, 2E, 2W, 3, 9, 10 ) .
[ April 2021, Bangladesh, cox's Bazar ]  Both refugee and host: Livelihood based coping strategies: Nine out of ten Rohingya households and six out of ten Bangladeshi households reported adopting at least one livelihood based coping strategy  ( LCS )  20 . For the host community, there was evidence of an increased use of stress coping strategies compared to 2019. In both populations, the high shares of stress coping were driven by more households buying food on credit, borrowing money to buy food and spending savings
[ 27th May 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  Host: Notwithstanding some water shortages during dry season  ( January May ) , especially in Teknaf area, the recent Multi Sector Needs Assessment  ( MSNA )  reported that 88% of households consider having enough water to meet all domestic necessities. Disparities, however, persist; for example, in host communities, only the 77% of the population reported accessing enough water according to their needs. .
[ 20th December 2020, Bangladesh ]  Child marriage has increased due to declining family income : According to the feedback parents are unsure when schools will reopen. They express concern about their daughters' attitudes towards relationships with boys, as girls have access to mobile phones. Therefore, they feel a more urgent need to arrange the marriages of their daughters in order protect the ‘honour' of their family  ( respectability of their family ) . Furthermore, with job loses compelling families to return to their villages, they want to marry off their daughters before they do so in case, they can't find suitable grooms in their villages. Community feedback suggests that in many cases parents are secretly marrying off their daughters by taking them to relatives' villages, since NGOs and local governments have stepped up campaigns to prevent child marriage.
[ April 2021, Bangladesh, cox's Bazar ] Both refugee and host: Similar to trends in other welfare indicators, the registered Rohingya fared better than unregistered Rohingya in terms of coping strategies, although seven out of ten households adopted some form of livelihood based coping behaviour. Rohingya households with no active working members were highly likely to adopt livelihood based coping strategies. Among households that have some income from work, traders and businessmen were less likely to adopt livelihoodbased coping strategies than other earners, largely day labourers. In host communities, regular wage workers  ( monthly salaried, formal occupations )  were found to be resorting significantly less to livelihood based coping behaviour than those involved in irregular, seasonal or selfemployed work.
Prices are up significantly for most food commodities across the markets largely due to the breakdown in transportation mechanisms since the strict lockdown commenced on March 24th. Most crucially, farmgate prices for producers have plummeted for many items as wholesalers have ceased to purchase from them, stating an inabiltiy to move product to the remaining open markets.
[ 27th May 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  Access to water, moreover, can be a challenge especially for little children: children are often considered responsible of “playing with water', “wasting water' and so on, so, unless clearly tasked by family to fetch water with a HH water container, are often pushed away from the water points as well as from the hand washing stations.
[ 29th Dec 2020, Bangladesh ]  Also, 932 new cases were reported during the same period, taking the country's total caseload to 510,080, said the Directorate General of Health Services.
[ 29th Dec 2020, Bangladesh ]  Bangladesh recorded 23 deaths from COVID 19 in the last 24 hours until early Monday.
[ July  December 2020, Cox's Bazar ]  Twenty  ( out of 23 )  sentinel sites for Cholera surveillance were fully functional during the reporting period, including two Upazila Health Complexes  ( UHCs )  and one Diarrhoea Treatment Centre  ( DTC )  in Camp 24.
[ 20th December 2020, Bangladesh ]  Feedback from Chattogram, Noakhali and Bandarban indicates that adolescent girls are aware and concerned about the fact that they're at high risk of being married off due to long time school closure. Many adolescent girls from secondary schools are migrating to villages with their families – they fear they might not return to school. They say that if schools were open, they wouldn't worry about being married off, since they felt their parents would want them to complete their educations first. This makes many young girls depressed and anxious.
[ 22 28March 2021, Bangladesh ] During the reporting period, a total of 3,203 samples were tested from the host and Rohingya community in Cox's Bazar district laboratory. • An increase was observed in the number of tests conducted among the host community population in week 12, from 66 to 83 per one hundred thousand population and a decrease among the Rohingya refugees, from 108 to 99
[ 20th December 2020, Bangladesh ]   Community feedback from Bandarban that many adolescent boys have found work transporting vegetables, fruit, and bamboo, earning around BDT 14 15,000 per month. It's a concern that by entering the ‘working world', and having earnings, they might forego further studies.
[ 29th Dec 2020, Bangladesh ]  So far, 3,184,527 tests have been carried out. The overall infection rate stood at 16.02 percent and the death rate at 1.47 percent.
[ April 2021, Bangladesh, cox's Bazar ]  Both refugee and host: Credit dependency: reasons and sources of credit dependency among Rohingya was found to persist at previously high levels. Among host communities, the share of the population who had contracted debt increased by almost 15 percentage points in 2020  ( Figure 12 ) . Unlike the year before when high credit dependency among the Rohingya population was largely driven by the unregistered group, this year both registered  ( 56 percent )  and unregistered Rohingya  ( 66 percent )  reported high debt contraction rates, apparently due to the widespread impacts of lockdowns on the local economy.
[ December 2020, Cox's Bazar ]  During the month, medical technologists performed 300 and 160 GenXpert tests at Ukhiya and Teknaf Upazilas, respectively, and conducted a total of 150 routine microscopy tests for tuberculosis diagnosis. Radiographers conducted a total of 75 x rays for referred patients in Teknaf Upazila Health Complex for tuberculosis, suspected COVID 19 cases, and other respiratory illnesses.
[ 20th December 2020, Bangladesh ]   Adolescent with disabilities might be at a higher risk of COVID 19 infections because of limited access to information. Many don't have access to, or the ability to use mobiles or television, through which the government is disseminating information. They want an accessible format in order to receive COVID 19 related information.
[ 27th May 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  Use of toilets, especially by women, girls is a constant challenge: many reports have underlined the persistent risks of accessing sanitation facilities because of lack of privacy, gender segregation or related to GBV risks accessing latrines and bathing areas. This is considered being one of the main reasons why the 68% of households reported having a private space inside or attached to their shelter for bathing but those bathing places sometimes associated with laundry  ( 56% )  and dishwashing places  ( 52% ) .
[ 30th May 2021, Bangladesh ]  Due to the current situation of COVID 19, following the above mentioned memos, the imposition of previous restrictions has been extended from midnight on 30 May to midnight on 6 June 2021: In this case, concerned are requested to take necessary actions on this matter, as directed.
[ 20th December 2020, Bangladesh ]  Feedback also suggests that adolescent girls who reach menarche are worried about their health because of their limited access to nutritious food. Some share that they can no longer access the iron and folic acid provided by NGOs before the pandemic. There's concern that without access to nutritious food and other services girls may be at increased risk of menstruation related health issues such as irregularities in menstruation
[ April 2021, Bangladesh, cox's Bazar ] Recommendations :Food assistance  ( camps and host community ) : The level of and growing trend in overall vulnerability despite the food and basic needs coverage provided by the humanitarian response confirms the criticality of continuing the provision of blanket food assistance and potential consideration in adjusting them to evolving needs.
[ 27th May 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  Both Host and Refugees: The first COVID  19 confirmed case in Rohingya refugee camps was detected on the 14th of May. As of March 2021, every camp  ( 34/34 )  has registered COVID 19 cases, 10 deaths have been registered due to COVID 19 among FDMN population and 73 host communities. 413 cases of COVID 19 have been confirmed in camps and 5553 in host. Overall positivity of tests is 2.0% in host and 0.9% in camps.
[ 27th May 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  Recent MSNA study suggests that appropriated hygiene practices remain low even though progress has been observed partly due to fear from COVID 19 and focus on hand washing promotion: indeed, 98% of the refugees increased handwashing practices since the COVID 19 outbreak. However, knowledge and practices like handwashing before feeding a child/breastfeeding or after scooping children feces appear to be still low. Similarly, menstrual hygiene awareness is poorly prioritized.
[ 27th May 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  WASH partners have also expressed the need to better cooperate with relevant sectors such as Nutrition, CWC, Education, to enhance the impact of hygiene promotion activities towards behavior change. For communities to be able to practice correct hygiene behavior, availability of basic hygiene items should be granted
[ 27th May 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  WASH camp focal points also identify the need of coordination between the camp level site management and development actors and CIC to maintain the facilities with dignified access. They point out that the camp set up is regularly changing in terms of building new access roads, new centers and it changes the space patterns, and this often hinders the accessibility or privacy of latrines and bathing facilities.
[  7 13 December 2020, Cox's Bazar ]  The overall positivity of all samples tested is 1.8%. To date, all 34 camps have reported confirmed cases. The total of 10 deaths from COVID 19 represents a case fatality rate of 2.8%. So far, 8.6% of the cases showed severe symptoms at the time of admission while 6.7% reported at least one co morbidity
[ 27th May 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  Water scarcity in some areas, like in Teknaf, as previously reported, impacts not only the water availability but also the time spent in queue: this has reported to occasionally lead to conflicts and violence at water points.
[  7 13 December 2020, Cox's Bazar ]  1517 persons with COVID like symptoms were referred to health care facilities from a total of 30 801 to date.
[ 27th May 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  The result is that various surveys conducted in camps report of serious concerns from women and girls regarding their safety, security, dignity while using WASH facilities, especially related to latrines and bathing spaces. Women report substantial risks of being harassed while using WASH facilities, including the risk of gender and sexual based violence.
[ 7 – 13 March 2021, Cox's Bazar Bangladesh ] Other illegal activities: During the week, there were four reported abductions, four rescues of abducted individuals, and four kidnap related arrests; two Rohingya men and one host community male and one female. There were also three violent robberies and eight serious assaults of members of the host community; five females and three males largely related to land disputes.
[ 20th December 2020, Bangladesh ]   Feedback suggests that Adolescent sex workers are being physically abused from customers, police and local people. Feedback reveals that most of their customers are from lower socioeconomic backgrounds and are also facing financial hardship. For example, sometimes adolescent sex workers are hired by a single customer but are expected to entertain multiple customers without any additional pay when they arrive at the customer's home. If they claim, they are subject to being beaten. Some sex workers say police and local people shout at them and chase them when they solicit in public places such as in front of cinema halls.
[ 27th May 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  It is reported that COVID 19 has exacerbated the incidence of GBV cases in the camps even further due to a series of factors like reduced presence of humanitarian actors, increase fear, tensions among the population and emerging of negative coping mechanisms, such as survival sex.
[ 27th May 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  Refugees: Moreover, Rohingya perceive them as a “problem' after they moved to the camps. Every day since they are here they have received messages implying that everything they do is wrong, and they don't belong here. This brings a lot of hopelessness and depression. During COVID 19 they had strong feelings that their religion was a problem, which humanitarian community wanted to change their religious practices, including burials.
[ 27th May 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  Vulnerable children such as unaccompanied, children with mental or physical disabilities, from poor families, experience even more challenges to access services, including WASH ones. For children, there are risks associated as well with what concerns access to water: children are often seen carrying heavy water containers as they are sent to fetch water by their families.
[ 27th May 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  During COVID 19, protection partners have witnessed increased violence against children  ( including notable rise violence in the home and SGBV ) , increase child marriage, lost and missing children, dangers and injuries, increase exposure to trafficking and smuggling, psychosocial distress and anxiety.
[ 27th May 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  Both Host and Refugees: Adolescent's needs and differences seem to be heightened when it comes to the sex of WASH facilities users: male and female adolescents have different gender roles within the Rohingya and host communities and, as such, are impacted differently by WASH services design and functionality.
[ 15 31 March 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  Refugees: As of 28 March 2021, a total of 438 COVID 19 cases have been reported among Rohingya/FDMN. With a total of 62 cases, Camp 24 has the highest number of cases to date further ahead from Camp 2W with 43 and Camps 3 and 15 with 33 and 28 cases, respectively. To date, 25 cases were reported from Camp 6, 22 from Camp 2E and 19 from Camp 4. Camps 5 and Camp 1W had 17 and 14 cases, respectively, and camp 22 had 13 cases.
[  7 13 December 2020, Cox's Bazar ]  WHO's support has continued during COVID 19 with consumables which have included more than 72 000 examination gloves, 2700 face shields, 3600 N95 or equivalent masks, and 15 900 surgical masks, 1290 gowns and 1200 coveralls, to support protection of health care workers from occupational exposure to COVID 19.
[ 31st March 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  Refugees: On the afternoon of March 22, 2021, a massive fire broke out in the Rohingya refugee camps in Ukhiya, Cox's Bazar. The fire quickly spread across camps 08E, 08W and 9 consuming shelters and personal belongings of refugees and burning down essential facilities such as hospitals, primary health facilities, learning centres, and women friendly spaces in the camps.
[ 27th May 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  Refugees; For Rohingya, the central nexus between power and gender is evident in the established value system through which men and women's actions are deemed “honorable' or “dishonorable'. Perhaps the largest and most predominant value system shaping women's access to leadership positions and public space more generally was not the often discussed purdah system, but rather the izzot  ( honor )  system that governs the social reputations of men and women
[ 27th May 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  Because there is a disproportionate ratio between young women and men with a higher number of women, dowry paid to men's families has become a common practice and women are unable to find or pay for marriages in the camps. Many families reported distress and anxiety over younger, unmarried daughters in their families.
[ 27th May 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  Both Host and Refugees: In both the refugee and the host communities, women appear to have less control over five identified domains: working to earn money, buying or selling assets, accessing health, family planning, and schooling for children. Women from the refugee and the host communities further had little decision making power concerning expenditure.
[ 27th May 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  As a result, the body becomes the site of social control of women and water comes to play a role in whether, how often and for how long female bodies are ‘out of place' in fetching safe water, and thus subject to social norms, gazes, policing and punishment. In this respect, fetching water is a particularized burden for women, as notions of honor, shame and decorum affect quite literally their access to water.
[ 27th May 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  The report further shows that people with disabilities are more likely to be at risk of sexual abuse and exploitation. Women and girls living with disabilities, particularly those with intellectual disabilities, are vulnerable to sexual violence.
[ 27th May 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  Refugees: In Rohingya camps, older people face access challenges arising from discrimination and exclusion, and inaccessibility in a terrain with steep hills. Moreover, older persons and persons with disabilities expressed feelings of rejection and sadness due to limited interactions with others as a result of geographical isolation.
[ 5th March 2021, Bangladesh ]  Literature indicates that domestic violence cases rose in India,5 Bangladesh,6 and Malaysia.7 This strongly manifested online, as search queries related to VAWG, including physical, sexual and psychological violence, all rose during the same period. For example, searches related to physical violence  ( which include keywords such as “physical abuse signs', “violent relationships', “cover bruises on face' ) . ' In Bangladesh, the top search queries were linked to the “definition of domestic violence', and other types of abuse such as “emotional', “mental,' and “abuse in relationships.'
[ 1st December 2020, Bangladesh ]  Bangladesh saw a spike in daily COVID 19 deaths on Monday as health authorities recorded 35 more deaths in 24 hours, raising the fatalities to 6,644.The death rate stood at 1.43 percent, said the Directorate General of Health Services.
[ 27th May 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  It has been reported that sometimes persons with disabilities are kept away from latrines or water points because they are considered taking too much time in using the facilities. If persons with disabilities are not supported by caregivers, they encounter more difficulties in accessing basic services, like getting enough water to cover all their needs, accessing distribution sites and so on.
[ 2nd December 2020, Bangladesh ]  Earlier on November 5 last, the government signed a tripartite memorandum of understanding  ( MoU )  with the Serum Institute of India  ( SII )  and Beximco Pharmaceuticals Ltd to collect the three crore doses of the Oxford AtraZeneca SARS CoV B2, AZD1222 vaccine.
[ 27th May 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  At the moment, there are around 64022 latrines cubicles in the camps. Access, design, risks of GBV and poor maintenance seems to be the main factors that make using latrines still a challenging experience for Rohingya communities, 3 years after the influx
[  7 13 December 2020, Cox's Bazar ]  Since April, the laboratory at the Cox's Bazar Medical college has tested over 76 000 COVID 19 samples and remain a vital part of the COVID 19 response in the district by providing testing and timely diagnosis for Cox's Bazar, Bandarban and part of Chattogram districts, including the densely populated Rohingya refugee camp
[ December 2020, Cox's Bazar ]  Prolonged closure of learning centres and schools, resulting in confinement at home for long periods, is affecting mental well being of children, youth and adolescents. In some cases, refugees have reported increased violence within the household and increased pressure from parents for their children to marry at a young age.
[ 23   29th Nov 2020, Camp, Cox's Bazar ] As for Camps 9, 16 and 22, 8 cases were reported. Camp 12 registered to date 7 cases. Camps 8W, 11, 19, 20 Extension and Nayapara RC identified 5 cases. The remainder Camps  ( Kutupalong RC, 4 Extension, 8E, 13, 14, 20, 21, 23, 25 and 27 )  had so far less than 5 cases.
[ 8th March 2021, Bangladesh ]  Between 8 March 2020 and 07 March 2021, according to the DGHS Press Release <https://corona.gov.bd/press release> there were five hundred fifty thousand three hundred thirty  ( 550,330 )  COVID 19 cases confirmed by rRT PCR, GeneXpert and Rapid Antigen tests including eight thousand four hundred sixty two  ( 8,462 )  related deaths  ( CFR 1.54% ) . Bangladesh is the top 33 rd country in the world and accounts for 0.47% of the COVID 19 cases of the world.
[ 31st Dec 2020, Bangladesh ]  According to feedback from Sreemangal, adolescent girls from financially stable families are accusing their parents of considering child marriage and are worried about their future. They say that since schools are closed, their parents are trying to marry them off while adolescent boys remain unmarried. Adolescent girls want their parents to understand them and treat all of their offspring equally