Uploaded May 2020 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
The world’s largest refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh saw its first confirmed case of COVID-19, exposing already extremely vulnerable Rohingya refugees and local Bangladeshis to the deadly virus. The International Rescue Committee has been training healthcare workers and staff on infection prevention and control and setting up isolation wards, but we are calling for a rapid scale up of funding to help mitigate and respond to the spread of the disease within the camp.
————Video Transcript————
The refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh has seen its first confirmed case of COVID-19.
Its crowded conditions put over 1 million Rohingya at especially high risk of infection.
The IRC is scaling up our health response to contain the spread.
"Hi, I'm Abu Saleh, construction supervisor of IRC. You're seeing over here started is a 60-bed isolation centre. We have started this construction end of March and work is going with full speed. We are trying to manage high quality of the construction and finish the work in time."
Our teams are working around the clock to help refugees and Bangladeshis survive this terrible disease.
Donate now: Rescue-UK.org
The IRC helps people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover and gain control of their future.
LEARN MORE
Rescue-UK.org
twitter.com/RESCUE_UK
facebook.com/RESCUE.UK
instagram.com/RESCUE_UK
The world’s largest refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh saw its first confirmed case of COVID-19, exposing already extremely vulnerable Rohingya refugees and local Bangladeshis to the deadly virus. The International Rescue Committee has been training healthcare workers and staff on infection prevention and control and setting up isolation wards, but we are calling for a rapid scale up of funding to help mitigate and respond to the spread of the disease within the camp.
————Video Transcript————
The refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh has seen its first confirmed case of COVID-19.
Its crowded conditions put over 1 million Rohingya at especially high risk of infection.
The IRC is scaling up our health response to contain the spread.
"Hi, I'm Abu Saleh, construction supervisor of IRC. You're seeing over here started is a 60-bed isolation centre. We have started this construction end of March and work is going with full speed. We are trying to manage high quality of the construction and finish the work in time."
Our teams are working around the clock to help refugees and Bangladeshis survive this terrible disease.
Donate now: Rescue-UK.org
The IRC helps people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover and gain control of their future.
LEARN MORE
Rescue-UK.org
twitter.com/RESCUE_UK
facebook.com/RESCUE.UK
instagram.com/RESCUE_UK
