Bangladesh's government and aid agencies started vaccinating Rohingya refugees as a virus surge raises health risks in the sprawling, cramped camps where more than 1 million people who fled Myanmar are sheltering.
FILE - In this Feb. 15, 2021, file photo, Rohingya refugees headed to the Bhasan Char island prepare to board navy vessels from the south eastern port city of Chattogram, Bangladesh. Authorities in Bangladesh on Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2021, started vaccinating Rohingya refugees against coronavirus for the first time across massive camps where more than 1 million refugees from neighboring Myanmar have been sheltered, officials and the U.N. refugee agency said.
The highly transmissible delta variant is driving an infection surge across Bangladesh, with around 20,000 infections and 200 deaths recorded so far in Cox’s Bazar district, the southern region bordering Myanmar where the 34 refugee camps are located. Rohingya community leaders, front-line health care volunteers in the camps, and Rohingya older than 55 are in the first group to be vaccinated. Over 65,000 of the nearly 900,000 refugees will be vaccinated in the first cohort, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said in an email to The Associated Press.
Experts say the full toll may be underreported, as many people don’t go to hospitals and many others died before getting tested. Across the country’s vast border regions with India, infections from the delta variant have spread amid concern that a lack of awareness about facemasks and maintaining other health guidelines could lead to a deteriorating COVID-19 situation in the densely populated nation.
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