The Rohingya Post

• 12/08/2021
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Myanmar Military denies Rohingya COVID-19 vaccinations: “This confirms the ongoing genocide” For Immediate Release The Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK (BROUK) condemns the Myanmar junta’s plans to deliberately withhold COVID-19 vaccinations from...

• 02/06/2021
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By Swati Rana, Eastern Eye A UN agency has sought global support for Covid-19 vaccinations among refugees in Asia as well as the Rohingya in Bangladesh. The UNHCR said the...

• 25/05/2021
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By Hilal Mir, Anadolu Agency Dozens of Rohingya refugees, considered ‘illegal immigrants’ by India, currently lodged at 'holding facility' inside jail SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir: About 20 of 170 Rohingya Muslims...

• 20/05/2021
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By AFP Bangladesh authorities on Thursday imposed a lockdown in five Rohingya refugee camps in the country's southeast after a spike in coronavirus cases in recent days, officials said. The...

• 08/08/2020
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By UNHCR For Salma, a community health volunteer and Rohingya refugee living in Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh, a typical day begins with morning meetings with Rohingya community leaders followed by her...

• 03/08/2020
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By Hareem F. Abdullah & Olivia Enos, The National Interest Sanctions were a good first step toward levying consequences for the Burmese military’s egregious actions against the Rohingya, but the United...

• 30/07/2020
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By UNHCR As the most vulnerable in Bangladesh face emergency on top of emergency, UNHCR continues to deliver aid and provide services in increasingly challenging conditions. At the forefront of...

• 24/07/2020
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By Areez Tanbeen Rahman and Iffath Yeasmine in Kutupalong refugee settlement, Bangladesh, UNHCR Trained community health workers – all of them Rohingya refugees – refer suspected COVID-19 patients in the...

• 20/07/2020
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By Dr. Azeem Ibrahim, Arab News After weeks of drifting in rickety wooden boats in the choppy waters of the Andaman Sea, Bangladesh finally relented and rescued the almost 400...

• 08/07/2020
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By Dr. Azeem Ibrahim, Arab News Many countries around the Bay of Bengal and Malacca Strait have been very gracious and generous to Rohingya refugees fleeing the genocide in Myanmar...

• 07/07/2020
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By A.Z.M. ANAS, Nikkei Asian Review Pandemic threatens aid to both poor host communities and refugees DHAKA -- "Two more Rohingya die from corona: Locals in panic" -- screamed a...

• 29/06/2020
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By Inmanuel Chayan, Caritas Bangladesh communications officer based in Cox’s Bazar One of the key measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus pandemic is social distancing, yet the poorest...

• 20/06/2020
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By Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes In May 2020, global media reported on the first cases of COVID-19 to emerge in the Kutupalong refugee camps near Cox Bazar, Bangladesh. The Kutupalong...

• 19/06/2020
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Source WHO • A total of 1,519 COVID-19 positive cases have been reported in Cox’s Bazar district (including Rohingya camps) as of 14 June 2020 as per Civil Surgeon Office,...

• 08/06/2020
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By Dave Grunebaum, VOA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av0G1bLJdQU   KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA - Humanitarian aid groups operating in southern Bangladesh say if there’s a major outbreak of COVID-19 in the weeks or months...

• 06/06/2020
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By Ralph Jennings, VOA TAIPEI, TAIWAN - Myanmar has sidelined an international court order to improve conditions for its long-embattled Rohingya minority, despite fears that the Southeast Asian government is...

• 05/06/2020
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By Poppy McPherson and Ruma Paul, Reuters BANGKOK/DHAKA (Reuters) - Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh with symptoms of the novel coronavirus are not coming forward to get tested because they fear...

• 27/05/2020
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By Riyaz ul Khaliq, Anadolu Agency Internet shutdowns in India, Pakistan, Kashmir, Myanmar, Bangladesh hinder fight against COVID-19, say rights groups ANKARA The World Health Organization (WHO) has been urged...

• 26/05/2020
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By Mike Cummings, Yale News Cox’s Bazar, a coastal city in southeast Bangladesh, is home to about 900,000 Rohingya refugees living in overcrowded camps. Like other forcibly displaced people across...

• 26/05/2020
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By Al Jazeera Three sections of camps in Bangladesh blocked off by authorities after confirmed infections among refugees hit 29. At least 15,000 Rohingya refugees are under quarantine in Bangladesh's...

• 21/05/2020
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By Hi.org Humanity & Inclusion’s teams are concerned about COVID-19 spreading in overcrowded camps for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, which have a population density of 40,000 people per sq. km....

• 20/05/2020
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By The Rohingya Post On May 14, the first two cases of Covid-19 have been tested positive among Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. For seven consecutive days, Covid-19 patients...

• 14/05/2020
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By AFP COX'S BAZAR (AFP) - Two Rohingya have become the first to test positive for coronavirus from the vast refugee camps in Bangladesh that house almost a million people, officials said...