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Bangladesh: Another Rohingya dies in refugee camp

DHAKA, Bangladesh One more Rohingya refugee in the crammed camps of Bangladesh’s southern district of Cox’s Bazar has died of coronavirus, officials said on Tuesday. With the latest fatality, the number of virus-linked deaths among the persecuted community in the South Asian country reached five, the office of the Refugee Relief and Repatriation…

Traffickers demand ransoms for Rohingyas held at sea in Southeast Asia

Dhaka, Bangladesh Rohingya refugees attempting to reach Malaysia by boat from Bangladesh are being held hostage by human traffickers who have demanded large ransoms from their relatives with threats of violence, according to several…

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Covid-19 may push millions of children into child labour

Dhaka, Bangladesh Millions of children are at risk of being pushed into child labour due to the Covid-19 crisis, which could lead to the first increase in child labour after 20 years of progress, according to a new brief from the…

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Rohingya virus cases fuel Bangladesh, Myanmar dispute

DHAKA, Bangladesh Bangladesh and Myanmar are at odds over the origin of two coronavirus cases confirmed among the latter’s Rohingya community. The dispute started when Myanmar’s Health Ministry confirmed that two Rohingya men -- a Muslim…

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Medical waste prolonging Covid-19 and threatening biodiversity

Dhaka,Bangladesh Untreated medical waste is prolonging the Covid-19 pandemic, threatening biodiversity and provoking some worst return from nature in the form of future health hazard. In today’s world, human beings are producing waste at…

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Coronavirus spreading in Bangladesh’s Rohingya camps

DHAKA, Bangladesh Bangladesh’s crammed Rohingya camps are threatened with the coronavirus outbreak as the infection tally rose to 21 with eight new cases reported on Friday, a government official said on Saturday. The first COVID-19 case…

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