nlp-thedeep/humsetbias huggingface dataset:
[ 01 14 March 2021Location: Cox's Bazar ]  During the reporting period CHWs conducted 286 595 household visits in which 5965 patients were identified with mild respiratory symptoms  ( fever, sore throat, cough )  and 35 patients with moderate/severe symptoms. The cumulative number of mild patients is 113 767, and 438 moderate/ severe patients. To date, 53 125 persons with COVID 19 like symptoms have been referred to health facilities, 4057 of which during the reporting period. Through coordination by the CHWG, COVID 19 messages reached 539 028 persons between 01 14 March 2021. Since the beginning of the response, CHWs have conducted more than 6.28 million household visits and had contacts with a cumulative number of more than 16.85 million adult household members. Through the CwC WG, 59 816 people were engaged in 20 190 small group sessions.
[ 23rd March 2021, Bangladesh ]  Bangladesh has registered 3,554 new Covid 19 cases in 24 hours   the highest single day spike reported in the country in over eight months. The last time more cases were recorded in a single day was on July 2 when 4,019 people tested positive for the deadly virus. With the fresh cases, the total number of Covid 19 cases now stands at 577,241 as of Tuesday.
[ 15 April 2021, Bangladesh ] Bangladesh saw a spike in the number of daily cases in recent days that was followed by record single day death counts. On Wednesday, the country registered its highest number of deaths from the virus for the fourth time in five days. The figure was 69 on Tuesday, 83 on Monday, 78 on Sunday and 77 on Saturday. Coronavirus claimed 568 lives in January this year, 281 in February and 638 in March.
[ 23rd March 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  Humanitarian organisation Refugees International, which estimated that 50,000 people had been displaced by the fire, said the extent of the damage may not be known for some time.
[ 23rd March 2021, Bangladesh ]  Meanwhile, a total of 25,954 samples were tested in government and private testing facilities in 24 hours – the highest number of samples tested in a single day since Covid 19 broke out in the country on March 8, 2020.
[ 23rd March 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  Two separate fires at the camps on Friday destroyed scores of shelters, officials said. Two big fires had alsohit the camps in January, leaving thousands homeless and gutting four UNICEF schools.
[ 22 March 2021, Bangladesh ]  Vaccination: Since the launch of COVID 19 vaccination campaign, as of 21 March 2021, 4,840,969  ( 81% )  doses of vaccine were administered out of the 6 million doses distributed across the country. A total of 3,040,522  ( 63% )  males and 1,800,447  ( 37% )  females received their 1st dose of vaccine. So far, 9.8% of the country's eligible population has been vaccinated, while in Dhaka metropolitan the coverage is 31.9%
[ 29th March 2021, Bangladesh ]  Bangladesh on Monday recorded its highest ever daily coronavirus infection – 5,181 – and 45 deaths. The infection rate has been upward for a number of days now. The government has issued 18 directives to curb transmission of the deadly virus. “We'll follow these directives for two weeks and see how things turn out. We'll issue further directives later,' he said.
[ 21 April 2021, Bangladesh ]  Cause of concern: Concerns about the spread of more contagious and deadlier variants of the virus have been raised by experts. A research suggests that the South African variant has accounted for 81 percent of the positive cases in Dhaka since the third week of March this year. That is not good news for Bangladesh because the country has managed to procure only the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine so far, which offers as little as 10 percent protection against the South African variant, according to researchers.
[ 21 ,May 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  The disability prevalence estimates found in this assessment are higher than those found in previous studies that estimated 8%12 or 14%13 of households as having at least one household member with disabilities using the WG SS of questions at the individual level, or studies that estimated 3%,14 9%,15 or 10%16 of households as having a household member with disabilities asking the WGQs at the household level and with the estimate of 3% having been obtained remotely.
[ 23rd March 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  Amnesty International's South Asia campaigner, Saad Hammadi, tweeted that the “frequency of fire in the camps is too coincidental, especially when outcomes of previous investigations into the incidents are not known and they keep repeating'. “It is not clear why these fire incidents are happening repeatedly in the camps. It needs proper and complete investigation,' Rohingya leader Sayed Ullah said.
[ 24 March 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  Refugees: If you lost your documents during the fire you will still be able to access rapid food relief and other assistance. If any of your important document are missing as a result of the fire, UNHCR will make arrangements to reissue your documents. This includes family attestation/fact sheet and ID cards. The families and individuals who have registration appointments in camp 9 will be contacted individually and rescheduled in a nearby registration site for the updates. People who are affected by the fires will not need documents to receive food assistance from WPF in the coming days.
[ 23rd March 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  So far, 13,000 Rohingya have been moved to the flood prone island, which critics say is also in the path of deadly cyclones.
[ 17th May 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  Both Host and Refugees: As of 2 May 2021, 7,785 cases and 87 deaths have been reported from the host community in Cox's Bazar; A total of 337 new cases were recorded among the host community from 26 April   2 May 2021. As of epidemiological week 17  ( 26 April  2 May 2021 ) , there are 579 confirmed cases of COVID 19  ( SARS CoV 2 )  detected among the Rohingya refugees from 38,776 samples tested since the beginning of the outbreak.
[ 22 March 2021, Bangladesh ]  In the past week  ( epidemiological week 11, 2021 ) , Bangladesh reported 13,483 new cases, a 91% increase compared to last week; the case per 100,000 population per week is 7.9. The country reported 145 new death, a 75% increase; death per 100,000 per week is 0.09. The weekly new test is 144,568  ( daily average: 20,653 ) , a 22% increase than the week before; tests per 100,000 per week is 85; the weekly average test positivity rate  ( TPR )  is 9.3%, TPR increased by 56% from last week. Overall Case Fatality Ratio  ( CFR )  is 1.52% which was 1.53% last week.
[ 1st   7th March 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  As of week 09, there are 421 confirmed cases of COVID19  ( SARS CoV 2 ) , 31 488 samples were tested. This week  ( week 09 ) , 15 new confirmed cases detected, 927 samples were tested, test positivity was 1.6%.
[ 20th March 2021, Bangladesh ] Of the 26 deceased   19 men and seven women   16 were from Dhaka division, four from Chittagong, and one each from Khulna and Rajshahi. All of them died while undergoing treatment at different hospitals across the country. So far, 6,551 men  ( 75.58% )  and 2,117 women  ( 24.42% )  have died of Covid 19 across the country. The mortality rate against the total number of cases detected currently stands at 1.52%.
[ 1st July 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  Refugees: Almost one million Rohingya refugees live in this natural floodplain, with families spread out over an intricate network of camps connected by muddy roads and makeshift bridges. The bamboo and tarpaulin shelters that dot the landscape rest on bare earth, some balanced on hills as steep as 45 degrees. When it rains   as it has for the past week   shelters flood, drinking water gets contaminated, important documents are damaged or lost, roads disappear under the deluge, and camps are cut off from each other as well as from vital humanitarian aid.
[ 1st July 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  Refugees: Children, youth and adolescents who make up half of the refugee population have no access to formal education. Dispute resolution between refugees, and between refugees and the host community, remains woefully under addressed. Women and girls remain acutely vulnerable to gender based violence.
[ 29 March 2021, Bangladesh ] Contact Tracing  ( CT ) : According to the IEDCR Go.Data platform, as of 28 March 2021, a total of 41,405 confirmed cases have been entered into the system for case investigation and contact listing. During the week of 22 to 28 March 2021 alone, 16,278 were uploaded and newly assigned to Outbreak Investigation Officers  ( OIOs )  – 20 of which were among known contacts being followed.
[ 20th March 2021, Bangladesh ]  The DGHS said 19,929 samples were collected from suspected Covid 19 patients in the 24 hour time frame. As many as 19,900 samples, including some pending ones, were tested at the 219 authorized labs   government and private   across the country. The latest figures showed a test positivity rate of 9.39%. To date, 4,388,011 tests have been conducted in the country, leading to an overall test positivity rate of 12.96%.
[ 1st July 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  Refugees: People continue to live in shelters, not homes. They live in overcrowded spaces and muddy streets, not in safe communities. Many Rohingya refugees have endured one catastrophe after another. Multiple fires have left a trail of devastation and dread; a pandemic has ripped through the fabric of communal life; families have been separated; and the coup in Myanmar has made the prospect of repatriation dangerous and uncertain. Through it all, they have had little to no influence on the decisions and events that shape the trajectory of their prolonged displacement, concurrent with sharply deteriorating conditions in the camps themselves.
[ 21 ,May 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  Overall, more than half the persons with disabilities had reportedly not received any assistive devices in the year prior to data collection despite needing them. This proportion was highest among female older persons with disabilities.
[ 22 March 2021, Bangladesh ]  As of 21 March 2021, according to the DGHS Press Release, 4,409,119 COVID 19 tests  ( RT PCR 99%, GeneXpert 0.7% and Rapid Antigen 0.3% )  were conducted in Bangladesh with an overall positivity rate of 12.95%  ( 10.29% in the last 24 hours )  by 219 laboratories/test centres. So far, 76.2% of the samples  ( 3,360,017 )  have been tested for COVID in government facilities  ( RT PCR 51/118, GeneXpert 27/29 and Rapid Antigen 72/72 ) . No test facility has been added to the network of COVID 19 testing facilities for the last two weeks. As of the reporting date, the test per case is 7.7, which indicates the number of tests required to identify 1 case.
[ 20th March 2021, Bangladesh ]  Up to this point, 520,718 patients   91.56% of all infected   have recovered from Covid 19 across the country. On March 8, health authorities in Bangladesh reported the first three cases of Covid 19, a severe acute respiratory illness caused by a new coronavirus strain which was later named Sars CoV 2.
[ 15th April 2021,Bangladesh ]  Of the people dying between March 16 and April 15, 59.14% were aged above 60 while 23.91% died aged between 51 and 60 years of age. Between February 16 and March 15, the ratio was 63.29% for people aged above 60 while 20.28% of people were aged between 51 and 60. The death ratio increased for people aged between 30 and 40 as well.
[ 21st March 2021, Bangladesh ]  Bangladesh recorded 22 more coronavirus related deaths and 2,172 new cases in the last 24 hours until Sunday morning. The infection rate rose to 10.29% which was 9.39% a day earlier. Covid 19 infection rate fell below 3% earlier this year but shot up again on February 9.
[ 24th March 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  IOM is distributing emergency assistance to all those affected. This includes shelter kits and water as well as emergency items such as face masks, soap, blankets, solar lights, mosquito nets and jerry cans.
[ 25th March 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  At the time of writing, two WFP nutrition centres and one food distribution point had been destroyed. Two other nutrition centres and an e voucher outlet are temporarily closed while assessments are underway. Those displaced are likely to be without cooking fuel and essential NFIs needed for cooking.
[ 16th April 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  Mr Biswas says the biggest impact of the fire in the Kutupalong mega camp is on the mental state of women and children. Their safety has been compromised as they've been living in makeshift homes since the fire. The already vulnerable population is now facing existing trauma from their refugee experience plus the anguish of other fires breaking out.
[ 16th April 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  Some 10,000 other structures including latrines, health facilities, community facilities and mosques were damaged by the fire which has created an urgent need for food, emergency shelter, water and sanitation and protection related support for 92,000 people who were affected overall.
[ 17th May 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  Refugees:  As of 2 May 2021, a total of 12 SARI ITCs in the FDMN/Rohingya Refugee camps are operational with 478 functional and 415 standby beds. Of the functional beds, 142  ( 29% ) beds are currentluy occupied. At 250 bed District Sadar Hospital, 10 Intensive Care Unit  ( ICU )  beds, 8 High Dependency Unit  ( HDU )  beds and 20 Severe Care Unit  ( SCU )  beds are functional. Currently, 22  ( 58% )  beds out of these 38 are occupied.
[ 25th March 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  A total of 149 learning centers were damaged or destroyed. Other learning centres and multi purpose centres not affected by the fire are being used for temporary shelter. . However, risk mitigation measures to prevent the spread of COVID 19 resulted in the closure of education facilities for much of the year and learning centres remain closed.
[ 21st March 2021, Bangladesh ]  So far, the country has recorded 8,690 fatalities and 570,878 cases, according to a handout by the Directorate General of Health Services  ( DGHS ) . The mortality rate stood at 1.52% for the third consecutive day.
[ 18th April 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  In camp 9, the worst hit by the fire, up to 71 percent of latrines and 76 percent of bathing spaces are now functional.
[ 21st March 2021, Bangladesh ]  The government signed an agreement with India's Serum Institute for acquiring 30 million doses. Serum will provide five million doses every month between January and June. For now, people aged 40 years or above can register at www.surokkha.gov.bd. Health Minister Maleque said the age limit would be revised when more doses will be available.
[ 18th April 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  Of those screened since 22 March, 231 severely acutely malnourished children, 958 moderately acutely malnourished children and 22 moderately acutely malnourished pregnant and lactating women were identified and admitted to nutrition support programmes.
[ 24 March 2021, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh ]  Therefore, urgent action to address refugee safety and emergency humanitarian access is required to prevent loss of life and mitigate exposure to extreme risk in the future.
[ 18th April 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  The humanitarian response in Cox's Bazar, including activities specific to the fire response, continues to be impacted by the climbing rate of COVID 19 cases in Bangladesh and the extension of the lockdown imposed by the Government of Bangladesh. The aid community continues to limit movements to the camps to life saving activities only.
[ 18th April 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  Refugees: Tensions and unrest in the fire affected camps have impacted refugees, especially children. Aid agencies have also reported some incidents of looting in child protection facilities. Families reported increased fear for personal security due to damaged shelters and inadequate lighting at damaged WASH facilities at night.
[ 22nd march 2021, Bangladesh ]   People aged 40 years and above now can get registered to receive Covid 19 vaccines, the Health Ministry sources said. Eleven of Monday's vaccine recipients experienced mild side effects. Till now, side effects in 917 people have been recorded. The inoculation would be administered among people in government hospitals up to upazila level while 6,271,524 people got them registered till 5.30pm on Monday.
[ 18th April 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  Poor mobile network coverage in the camps continues to impact the fire response and coordination, especially in the current context of restricted movements due to ongoing COVID 19 prevention measures.
[ 23 March, 2021, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh ] In the areas the NGO carries out its projects in, more than 7500 refugees have suffered the consequences of the fire, of whom 4500 are children. However, it is estimated that the figure is much higher and could be as high as 40,000 people, 60% of whom are children.  [ FIRE ]
[ 4th April 2021, Bangladesh ]  Bangladesh recorded more than 7,000 Covid 19 cases in daily figures for the first time on Sunday, with the country gearing up to enter a week long lockdown from Monday. A total of 7,087 people tested positive in the 24 hours to Sunday morning.
"As the fire happened, we were in the midst of preparing for the monsoon season in just a few months, and what is likely to also this year cause a crisis with needs for large scale emergency responses. The seasonal rains turn camps into flooded areas including in Cox's Bazar. Those who are affected by the fire now, are even more exposed. And there is furthermore a risk that capacity to respond will be depleted if we do not secure sufficient investment and funds to respond now," says DRC Country Director in Bangladesh, Sumitra Mukherjee.
[ 14th March 2021, Bangladesh ]  The government is planning to engage non governmental organizations  ( NGOs )  in efforts to reach out to and vaccinate disadvantaged people for Covid 19, a top health official has told Dhaka Tribune. He also said the government was contemplating whether to set up temporary facilities for the vaccination of marginalized communities.
[ 14th March 2021, Bangladesh ]  Currently, the affluent and educated segments of society with access to technology are reaping the most benefit from the countrywide vaccination campaign. Most marginalized communities are being left behind as they have limited access to the technology needed for vaccine registration.
[ 4th April 2021, Bangladesh ]  The country logged a total of 53 deaths over the same period. According to official data, Bangladesh also recorded its highest ever seven day moving average of daily Covid 19 deaths – 51.71 – since the pandemic broke out in March, 2020. It was 49.14 on Saturday.
[ 25th March 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  With the monsoon season approaching, it is imperative that new and durable shelters are built and that all shelters that sustained damage but were not fully destroyed also receive shelter materials to reinforce their homes.
[ 16 22 March, 2021, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh ]  A massive fire broke out in the main Kutupalong section of the Rohingya Refugee Camps on 22 March 2021 around 15:00 and rapidly spread through four camps  ( 8e, 8w, 9 and 10 ) , with early assessments indicating that at least 15 people have lost their lives, over 560 injured, and more than 45,000 people displaced with 10,000 shelters damaged/destroyed, with loss of critical infrastructure including nutrition centres, food distribution points and health centres. Displaced people have sought refuge in nearby camps and at various facilities.
[ 10th March 2021, Bangladesh ]  Bangladesh received its first ever Covid 19 vaccine consignment on January 21 as India sent two million doses of vaccine developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca as gift. Later, Bangladesh received seven million vaccine doses as part of the tripartite deal. The agreement ensures availability of 30 million Covid 19 vaccine doses by June this year from the Serum Institute of India.
[ 14th March 2021, Bangladesh ]  Nearly 5.5 million people have registered online and over 4.3 million people have already received the first of two doses of the Covid 19 vaccine. The nationwide vaccination campaign kicked off little over a month ago, prioritizing frontline workers and people over the age of 40. Of the people vaccinated, the overwhelming majority belongs to affluent and educated segments of society. A health official in charge of Covid 19 vaccination at a large hospital in Dhaka said the ratio of people vaccinated so far is 90:10 in favour of privileged people.
[ 22nd march 2021, Bangladesh ]  The health authorities in Bangladesh on Monday inoculated over 70,000 people against the contagious Covid 19 disease. Altogether 70,933 people were administered their first dose of the vaccine on the day. Of them, 40,211 were men and 30,722 were women, according to the Directorate General of Health Services  ( DGHS ) .
[ March 30 2021, Bangladesh ] The latest cases were reported after testing 28,195 samples. The infection rate jumped to 18.38 percent on Monday from 17.65 percent on Sunday. However, the death rate stands at 1.49 percent. During this 24 hour period, 2,077 coronavirus patients recovered. So far, 538,018 patients have made recoveries.
[ 4th April 2021, Bangladesh ]  With the latest development, the total number of deaths reached 9,266 while the total infections stood at 637,364 in the country. The latest figures show an infection rate of 23.07%. The overall infection rate of the country stands at 13.32%. The health authorities said 2,707 people recovered from the disease over the preceding 24 hours. So far, 552,482 patients – 86.68% – have made full recovery across the country.
[ 10th March 2021, Bangladesh ]  The first shot of the Oxford Astrazeneca developed vaccine produced by the Serum Institute of India  ( SII )  was administered to a nurse of Kurmitola General Hospital Runu Veronica Costa during the inauguration of the vaccination campaign. Then four more people, including two doctors, a traffic police and an Army Brigadier received the vaccine at the hospital. Later, 20 25 frontline health workers also received the vaccine.
[ 6th May 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  Refugees: Education enrolment, in particular among adolescents, and especially adolescent girls, also remained low. The longer temporary learning centres  ( TLCs )  continue to be closed in line with COVID 19 containment measures, the more likely this gap is to increase, with secondary data indicating the potential long term impacts of the closure of learning facilities to be very concerning, including that the longer children, especially girls, are out of school, the less likely they are to return.
[ 4th April 2021, Bangladesh ]  Of the 53 deceased – 45 men and eight women – 37 were from Dhaka division; nine from Chittagong; three each from Rangpur and Mymensingh; and one from Rajshahi division. Of the victims, 52 died at different hospitals and one at home. So far, 6,970 men  ( 75.22% )  and 2,296 women  ( 24.78% )  have died from Covid 19 across the country.
[ 6th May 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  Refugees: While the latter would represent a considerable increase from the 44% of households reportedly having had enough water to meet all domestic needs in 2019,this has to be interpreted with caution. At the same time, they reported that water infrastructure had not been sufficiently maintained during the lockdown, limiting access to water.
[ 6th May 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  Refugees: It can further be expected to have negative repercussions on health, food security and nutrition as well as household exposure to extreme protection risks.
[ 4th April 2021, Bangladesh ]  As many as 30,724 samples, including the pending ones, were tested in the 227 authorized labs    government and private    across the country. Currently, 12,870 people are in isolation and 40,272 are quarantined. On March 8, health authorities in Bangladesh reported the first three cases of Covid 19, a severe acute respiratory illness caused by a new coronavirus strain which was later named Sars CoV 2.
[ 6th May 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  Refugees: In addition, irrespective of water quantities, many KIs reported a lack of clean water or low water quality, requiring households to collect clean water from more distant sources.
[ 23rd March 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  Refugee: NRC staff have heard horrific accounts from refugees about their scramble to cut through the wire fences to save their families, escape the fire and reach safety. We call on the Government of Bangladesh to review their decision to fence in these camps, halt all fence construction going forward, and find a safer, more humane alternative.'
[ 16th April 2021,Bangladesh ]  Muslims across the country participated in Jummah prayer on the third day of the Ramadan maintaining social distancing and health safety rules as much possible. Police and other law enforcement agencies were vigilant at important roads and intersections in Dhaka and across the country to control the movement of the people. People were seen going to different places using their movement pass issued by the police.
[ 22nd march 2021, Bangladesh ]  The country's number of vaccine recipients is fluctuating for the last few days. The number of vaccine recipients was 80,222 on Sunday and 72,923 on Saturday while it was 107,433 on Thursday and 94,437 on Tuesday. With Monday's inoculations, the health authorities have so far administered vaccine doses to 4,911,902 people across the country. Of them, 3,080,733 were men while 1,831,169 were women.
[ 24 March 2021, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh ]  The fencing hampered the ability of refugees to escape and caused significant delays to fire services. Fleeing in these circumstances is even more difficult, if not impossible, for refugees with disabilities. The delays contributed to greater damage to the homes, learning centers and health facilities, upon which the refugees rely, particularly in one camp where everything was destroyed.
[ 9th   15th May 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  Both Host and Refugees: The inclement weather which impacted the district this week resulted in the death of three Rohingya, including a man and his daughter, from a lightning strike in Camp 18. There were three murders during the week  ( two Bangladeshi and one Rohingya )  as well as accidental deaths of four members of the host community.
Of the total sample tests in the past 24 hours, 8.29% tested positive, while the overall infection rate stands at 13.03%, the release added. Of the total infected, 91.73% patients have recovered, while the Covid  19 death rate remains static at 1.53%. The first three Covid 19 positive cases were reported in the country on March 8, and the first death from the novel coronavirus on March 18.
[ 17th March 2021, Bangladesh ]  Eminent orthopedic surgeon Dr Mosharraf Hossain, forensic expert Dr Habibur Rahman, former head of the medicine department at Dhaka Medical College Dr NI Khan, former ICU in charge at Impulse Hospital Dr Jalilur Rahman, former director of Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital Dr AKM Mujibur Rahman and former director at the Directorate General of Medical Education  ( DGME )  Dr FBM Abdul Latif are among the medical professionals who have died from Covid 19.
[ 30th March 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  Refugees: US$5.9 million is urgently needed to address the immediate aftermath of the catastrophic fire that affected so many Rohingya refugees. Additional support is urgently needed. UNHCR is asking government and private sector donors to keep their contributions flexible, thus allowing their use across the overall operation.
[ 23rd March 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  “Existing IRC analysis shows the risks facing women and girls: last year At least one in four women screened at IRC health facilities and women's centres in Cox's Bazar reported surviving gender based violence. We know that the risks posed to women and girls are compounded in times of crisis, and with the loss of shelter. It is, therefore, of utmost importance that their safety and wellbeing is prioritised in the wake of this devastating fire and that efforts to provide them with adequate shelter, food and emergency supplies are at the heart of the response.'
[ 30th March 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  Refugees: An estimated 48,000 Rohingya refugees have lost their shelters and belongings in the blaze which devastated parts of the Kutupalong Balukhali refugee camps in Cox's Bazar last Monday  ( 22 March ) .
[ 23rd March 2021, Bangladesh ]  On Tuesday, the number of new Covid 19 cases in 24 hours shot up to 3,554 – the highest in eight months. The last time more cases were recorded in a single day was on July 2 when 4,019 people tested positive for the deadly virus.
[ 24 March 2021, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh ]  Despite these efforts, early reports from the camps indicate at least 11 people were tragically killed. With shelters burnt to ashes and nowhere to live, women, girls, people with disabilities, and older people also face greater threats to their personal safety.
[ 22 March 2021, Bangladesh ]  Surveillance & Laboratory: As of 21 March 2021, 69% of reported cases were from Dhaka division  ( 55% at Dhaka city ) , Chattogram – 13%, Rajshahi – 5%, Khulna – 4%, Rangpur – 3%, Sylhet – 3%, Barishal – 2% and the lowest 1% from Mymensingh division. While, 56% of the reported death were from Dhaka division  ( 30% at Dhaka city ) , Chattogram – 18%, Khulna – 7%, Rajshahi –6%, Rangpur – 4%, Sylhet – 4%, Barishal – 3% and the lowest 2% from Mymensingh division.
[ 18th March 2021, Bangladesh ]  With the latest figures, from January 27 till now, a total 4,687,824 healthcare professionals, frontline fighters, and people aged above 40 years old have been immunized against the deadly virus. They include 2,956,034 men and 1,731,790. Of them, total 897 people have experienced adverse events. Meanwhile, 6,007,103 people had completed vaccine registration till 5:30pm on Thursday, said a press release from the Directorate General of Health Services  ( DGHS ) .
[ 18th March 2021, Bangladesh ]  Following the fire incident on Wednesday, Momena and nine others were moved to the ICU of the erstwhile burn unit of DMCH, DMCH Director Brigadier General Nazmul Haque said. Another patient was taken to a private hospital. The patients receiving treatment at DMCH are Selim, 52, Monirul Islam, 50, Rekha, 35, Enamul Haque, 65, Khandaker Abdur Rashid, 60, Shahin Alam, 32, Sahida, 50, Shahidul Islam, 56, and Nazrul Islam, 60. The duty doctor at the ICU unit said one patient, Khandaker Abdur Rashid, was on life support and another one was in the post operative ward. The rest of the patients were in stable condition.
[ 23 March 2021, Cox's bazar ]  Refugees: If you are scared, threatened or harmed by anyone, please talk to a humanitarian worker. If a stranger offers you a job, money, shelter, food in exchange for something from you, don't trust him/her, the person might take advantage of you or hurt you.
[ 8 August 2021, Bangladesh ]  Medical products: Ensure modern diagnostic equipment: Public and private health facilities with modern diagnostic equipment needs to be ensured.
[ 19th March 2021, Bangladesh ]  The daily Covid 19 test positivity rate in Bangladesh has remained above 10% mark for the second consecutive day. The latest figures showed an infection rate of 10.04% in the 24 hours till Friday morning, according to a Directorate General of Health Services  ( DGHS )  press release. The health authorities on Thursday recorded the highest daily infection rate in the last three months, as 10.45% of tests conducted in the previous 24 hours came back positive.
[ 19th March 2021, Bangladesh ]  On Wednesday and Tuesday, the daily infection rate stood at 7.68% and 8.29% respectively. On Monday, the infection rate increased to 9.48%, which was the highest since December 2, when the rate was 9.38%. A total of 1,899 new infections were reported from 18,917 samples tested in the 24 hours till Friday morning.
[ 19th March 2021, Bangladesh ]  Bangladesh Department of Health sources said maternal and neonatal access to healthcare has declined significantly to a great extent since the onset of the Covid 19 crisis. Former president of Obstetric and Gynecological Society of Bangladesh Raushanara Begum said an additional 36% deliveries are now being held at home due to reduction of services at health centres.
[ 1st   7th March 2021,Bangladesh ]  In week 9, 13 suspected measles cases were reported through weekly reporting. In total 129 cases reported in 2021, out of those 114 cases reported through case based surveillance and samples collected for laboratory confirmation.
[ 19th March 2021, Bangladesh ]  The total number of identified cases in the country stands at 566,838. Meanwhile, a total of 1,618 patients have successfully recovered from the infection across the country, taking the total number of recovered case to 519,141. The country's recovery rate now stands at 91.59%.
[ 10th March 2021, Bangladesh ]  Despite not reaching a definitive conclusion over the situation, the health authorities attribute the increase in the daily fresh cases to the reluctance of the general people to abide by mandatory health rules. Hence, the health authorities and virologists have further emphasised maintaining the minimum social distance, sanitise or wash hands very often and use masks, to ward off the life threatening consequences of contracting Covid 19.
[ 10th March 2021, Bangladesh ]  Earlier on Tuesday, drawing attention to the sudden spike in Covid 19 cases, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said that infections in the country were on the rise because people were travelling to different tourist spots like Cox's Bazar, thereby flouting health safety regulations. “If we are not aware of and defy the health rules, it's quite normal that more people would be infected. And so more people are getting admitted in hospitals,' he added.
[ 10th March 2021, Bangladesh ]  Nevertheless, he stressed the need for accurate and intensive research to identify the actual reason behind the upward infection rate. The DGHS chief himself said the authorities learnt about the UK variant being confirmed two months ago but it did not necessarily mean that the variant had fuelled the infection rate. “We don't have any evidence or research substantiating that the infection is increasing due to the new strain,' Khurshid Alam said.
[ 10th March 2021, Bangladesh ]  Bangladesh launched a mass vaccination campaign on February 7. When contacted, eminent virologist Nazrul Islam too pointed to the surge in public gatherings and overcrowded tourist spots as being the reasons behind the rise in the infection rate. “This is happening only because health rules, including the use of masks, are widely being flouted,' he observed.
[ 19th March 2021, Bangladesh ] Shortage of skilled manpower, including doctors and midwives, and equipment are being faced at healthcare centres during the birth of children as various precautionary measures such as lockdowns and curfews have been enforced in different countries in order to stem the spread of coronavirus, Unicef said in a report.
[ March 31 2021, Bangladesh ]  Bangladesh reports record number of 5,358 new daily Covid cases; 52 deaths
[ 1 June 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  Participants also noting the struggle to find jobs, both during and before the pandemic despite qualifications.
[ 6 May, 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  Refugee: States and UNHCR must include refugee women and girls in rapid risk and impact assessments and meaningfully consult them. Implementing a gender sensitive response to the pandemic and the recovery phase is essential. Forcibly displaced lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer and other  ( LGBTIQ+ )  people also experience high rates of SGBV. States must address the multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination, in partnership with organizations led by LGBTIQ+ refugees, to secure their immediate safety, including through resettlement.
[ 2nd   3rd April 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  One of the patients had burn injuries caused by the fire.
[ 9th   15th May 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  Host: On 9 May, police arrested three host community criminals in Cox's Bazar Municipality capturing one locally made firearm and six rounds of ammunition. On the tenth, four fugitives accused of robbery were also arrested in the same city. There continues to be a higher than normal number of SGBV offences reported in the media.
[ March 2021, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh ]  Overall, there are reportedly a wider variety of learning opportunities within the host community than in camps. The lack of teaching space and access to learning materials and modalities are limiting the response in camps.
[ 24th June 2021, Bangladesh ]  Passengers from Belgium, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Greece, Kuwait, and Oman are permitted to travel to Dhaka. However, they will still have to complete a mandatory 14 day institutional quarantine at government nominated hotels at their own expense. There is no restriction on passengers traveling to these countries. Incoming passengers from Kuwait and Oman will have to complete mandatory three day institutional quarantine at government nominated facilities or at hotels at their own expense.
[ 23rd March 2021, Bangladesh ]  UNFPA provided human resources support  ( lab technicians, medical technologists, virologists, data operators, etc., )  through World Bank's Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility  ( PEF )  for various laboratories across the country and also provided transportation for sample collection, primarily in Dhaka city. WHO provided HR support and transport support for sample collection from by the mobile teams coordinated by IEDCR.
[ 24th June 2021, Bangladesh ]  The authorities have declared a complete shutdown in some areas under Mymensingh City Corporation for seven days with effect from Friday morning till July 1 midnight. Deputy Commissioner Mohammad Enamul Haque issued the order on Thursday night, and asked all to follow social distancing and other health guidelines as per the rules to avoid legal action.
[ 24th June 2021, Bangladesh ]  Of the deceased, three died in Mymensingh division till Thursday, taking the death toll to 292 since last year.
[ 14th July 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  As part of its prevention efforts, IOM has continued contact tracing for diphtheria with four contacts traced and assisted through the Directly Observed Treatment approach, and 142 rapid diagnosis tests conducted for various communicable diseases
[ 14th July 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  Two IOM Severe Acute Respiratory Infection Isolation and Treatment Centres  ( SARI ITCs )  and eight health facilities are sample collection sites for suspected and confirmed Acute Respiratory Infections cases. Following the Government and Health Sector's recommendations, IOM has recently scaled up their capacity from 120 beds to 173.
[ 30 April 2021, Bangladesh ] Most of the adolescents who reported regularly following government run lessons broadcast on television  ( TV )  had limited or no access to the internet, did not attend any private tuition classes and had no one to help them with their studies at home.
[ 14th July 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  In June, the team provided MHPSS services to 11,438 refugees and host community members, including 298 COVID 19 patients. Due to ongoing restrictions, the team focused on facility based activities, such as individual counseling, psychoeducation, PFA, basic emotional support, referrals, and remote MHPSS services  ( hotline and telecounseling ) .
[ 21 ,May 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  Generally, higher proportions of persons with disabilities than persons without disabilities reportedly face barriers accessing services, the most common ones being facilities being too far and persons being unable to travel to facilities unassisted. Persons with difficulties in functioning in the self care or mobility domains were particularly likely to be reported as facing barriers accessing services.
[ 21 ,May 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  ENROLMENT AND HIGHEST LEVELS OF EDUCATION: Among younger age groups, significantly lower proportions of children with disabilities than children without disabilities were found to have been enrolled into both formal and informal learning centres before their closure due to the COVID 19 outbreak  ( in March 2020 ) . Overall, 65% of children with disabilities aged 5 to 9 had reportedly attended temporary learning centres  ( TLCs )  for at least 4 days a week prior to the COVID 19 outbreak. In comparison, 88% of children without disabilities of the same age group had reportedly attended TLCs
[ 23 March 2021, Cox's bazar ]  Refugees: It is possible you may have become separated from your family as a result of the fire. If this happened there are ways for families and children to find each other. If you lost your parent, caregiver, siblings, please try to get in touch with any person working in protection or child protection actor in your affected camp or in the camp you currently took emergency shelter. You can also go to the CiC Office, Site Management office, Women and Girls Safe Spaces and they will get you in touch with a child protection worker. If you are in a temporary shelter arranged by an agency, please stay there. Protection agency staff will ask your details who your family is and where do you live and escaped from. This will help them to trace your family members.
[ 14th July 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  Due to heavy rains, 1,125 people  ( 125 families )  were evacuated in Teknaf and took shelter in a nearby school. IOM provided support related to basic child protection issues and COVID 19.
[ 4th April 2021, Bangladesh ]  The country has been logging over 5,000 cases and 50 deaths from the deadly virus in the past few days. On Saturday, Bangladesh reported 5,683 new Covid 19 cases and 58 new deaths, making the tally at 630,277 and death toll at 9,213, said the Directorate General of Health Services  ( DGHS ) .
[ 4th April 2021, Bangladesh ]  Earlier, on March 29, the government issued an 18 point directive, imposing fresh restrictions to tackle the spike in Covid 19 cases and deaths. It said then the new curbs will remain in force initially for two weeks.
[ 3rd August 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  Four hundred villages in Cox's Bazar have been flooded after days of rain. Houses are damaged; Springs, agricultural lands and people's livelihoods are submerged in water.
[ 21 ,May 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  Average daily per capita incentives received by households engaged in the informal sector and with persons with disabilities were lower than those of households engaged in the informal sector but without persons with disabilities, in particular postCOVID and among less educated households
[ 23 March 2021, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh ]  Health facility data collected from 25 nearby health care facilities and Mobile Medical Teams  ( MMTs )  confirms they have treated or referred around 400 patients. The vast majority are mild injuries including superficial burns. A few severe cases have been referred to and managed at the 250 Bed District Sadar Hospital in Cox's Bazar, which has Intensive Care Unit  ( ICU )  bed capacity, and to other sub district facilities.
[ 26th June 2021, Bangladesh ]  No one will be allowed to leave home without emergency reasons, he said, adding that the army would be called in to assist the police and the Border Guard Bangladesh  ( BGB )  troopers to enforce the ‘strict lockdown'. All government and private offices will remain closed during the lockdown, said Hossain, adding that some bank branches and offices of the National Board of Revenue would operate until June 30 for the national budget.
[ 14th July 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  In June, 1,114 shelters were completed and handed over to fire affected families in Camps 8E and 9. Among them, 234 shelters in Camp 8E were completed by IOM's Common Pipeline Partner while 880 shelters in Camp 9 were completed by IOM.
[ 14th July 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  In response to a landslide and the subsequent displacement of host communities in Teknaf, IOM deployed an MMT, which provided essential health services to 107 patients. The Mental Health and Psychosocial Support  ( MHPSS )  staff assisted 224 individuals affected by heavy rainfall, with basic emotional support, Psychological First Aid  ( PFA )  and referrals.
[ 18th March 2021, Bangladesh ]  Another patient on life support at Dhaka Medical College Hospital  ( DMCH )  has died as a result of the fire incident at the Covid 19 ICU unit. The patient, Momena Begum, 45, passed away on Thursday afternoon while undergoing treatment at the ICU unit in DMCH. DMCH Resident Surgeon Ariful Islam Nobin confirmed the matter to Dhaka Tribune.
[ 14th July 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  In June, IOM continued to address the essential health needs of Rohingya refugees and vulnerable host communities, by providing 71,018 consultations at 35 primary and secondary healthcare facilities. The services provided included outpatient and inpatient consultations, SRH services, 24 hour ambulances, MHPSS and GBV services, laboratory facilities, and child health services. In June, 17,854 children under five received curative consultations while 476 were vaccinated.
[ 21 ,May 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  Utilisation of WASH infrastructure by type of functional difficulty: Persons with difficulties in functioning in the self care or upper body movement domains reportedly used public not accessible latrines and public bathing facilities at significantly lower proportions than persons with difficulties in functioning not in those domains. In turn, persons with difficulties in functioning in the self care or upper body movement domains as well as persons with difficulties in functioning in the mobility domain used private accessible latrines at significantly higher proportions than persons with difficulties in functioning not in those domains
[ 21st March 2021, Bangladesh ]  “Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will arrive in Bangladesh on March 26. I think the third consignment of the purchased vaccine – five million doses in total – will arrive along with him. If not then, we will get them by the first week of April,' he said.
[ 21st March 2021, Bangladesh ]  The health authorities expect to receive another five million doses of Covishield vaccines from India on March 26. This will be the third consignment in the six instalment delivery agreement between Bangladesh's Beximco Pharmaceuticals Ltd and India's Serum Institute.
[ 23rd June 2021, Cox's Bazar ]  The exclusive breastfeeding rate in Ukhiya Upazila was 73.5%  [ 58.8 84.3 ]  which is above the national rate of 65.0% and comparatively higher than Teknaf Upazila which was found at 60.0%  [ 42.0 75.7 ]  with no significant difference  [ p=0.215 ]  between two Upazilas.
[ 21st March 2021, Bangladesh ]  So far, Bangladesh has received two shipments of the vaccine doses. On January 25, Bangladesh received the first consignment of five million doses of the vaccine from Serum Institute. However, earlier on January 21, India sent an additional two million doses of Covid 19 vaccines as a gift to Bangladesh.
[ 26 March 2021, Bangladesh: Cox's Bazar ]  Shelter and non food items; A large number of shelters have been destroyed  ( 11,000 ) , with people evacuated to neighboring camps. As such, emergency shelter assistance  ( household shelter items such as tarpaulins, mats, tents and clothes )  is needed
[ 24th March 2021, Bangladesh ] According to the Directorate General of Health Services  ( DGHS ) , eight government hospitals in Dhaka have 103 ICU beds and 92 of those are already taken, while at the private hospitals, out of 267 available units, 210 are occupied by critical ill patients. In Chittagong, of the 25 government hospital ICUs, some 15 have been occupied and in private hospitals, 20 out of 25 ICUs are occupied, according to the DGHS. The Sylhet office of the DGHS said 10 beds functioning in the city were occupied.
[ 24th March 2021, Bangladesh ]  Kurmitola General Hospital in Dhaka has been forced to admit more patients than the number of facilities it has. DGHS data note that 393 people were admitted in the hospital against 275 general beds. All 10 ICU beds of the hospital are also occupied. Private hospitals in the city also have made it known that over three fourths of the ICUs at their hospitals are occupied.
[ 23 March 2021, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh ]  At least six health facilities have been reported as damaged or destroyed by the fire: one secondary health facility  ( field hospital ) , one specialized clinic, one primary health care  ( PHC )  facility, and one health post  ( HP )  were destroyed while another PHC and HP were partially damaged