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STORY: UNHCR / COVID-19 ROHINGYA REFUGEES
TRT: 03:14
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 30 MARCH – 5 APRIL 2020, KUTUPALONG REFUGEE SETTLEMENT, BANGLADESH / FILE
FILE – 27 SEPTEMBER 2017, KUTUPALONG REFUGEE SETTLEMENT, BANGLADESH
1. Various shots, aerial views of entire refugee camp
FILE – 05 FEBRUARY 2019, KUTUPALONG REFUGEE SETTLEMENT, BANGLADESH
2. Various shots, busy street of refugee camp
05 APRIL 2020, KUTUPALONG REFUGEE SETTLEMENT, BANGLADESH
3. Wide shot, housing units from a rolling car
FILE – 19 OCTOBER 2017, KUTUPALONG REFUGEE SETTLEMENT, BANGLADESH
4. Pan right, Rohingya refugees carrying their belongings
FILE – 02 JULY 2019, KUTUPALONG REFUGEE SETTLEMENT, BANGLADESH
5. Wide shot, Rohingya refugee family sitting in front of their housing unit
6. Med shot, Rohingya refugee family sitting in front of their housing unit, looking at the camera
05 APRIL 2020, KUTUPALONG REFUGEE SETTLEMENT, BANGLADESH
7. Pan left, hospital construction site and workers
8. Pan right, hospital construction site and workers
30 MARCH 2020, KUTUPALONG REFUGEE SETTLEMENT, BANGLADESH
9. Med shot, Rohingya refugees washing their hands from a barrel
10. Wide shot, Rohingya refugees waiting in line respecting social distancing to wash their hands
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Sandra Harlass, Senior Public Health Officer, UNHCR:
“In the refugee camps we, for example, trained 1,200 community health workers to spread messages on hygiene prevention, on what is COVID, what are signs and symptoms, how can you prevent it as a family, and how can social distancing contribute.”
12. Med shot, veiled Rohingya refugee in registration center scanning fingers and gathering information
13. Tracking shot, veiled Rohingya refugee in registration center gathering information
05 APRIL 2020, KUTUPALONG REFUGEE SETTLEMENT, BANGLADESH
14. Wide shot, bamboo structure of hospital with workers on the roof
15. Pan left, hospital construction site and workers
16. Med shot, workers and supervisors talking in a circle at the construction site
FILE – 2 NOVEMBER 2017, KUTUPALONG REFUGEE SETTLEMENT, BANGLADESH
17. Close up, young Rohingya girl holding a baby and looking at the camera
18. Wide shot, UNHCR tent with refugees passing by
30 MARCH 2020, KUTUPALONG REFUGEE SETTLEMENT, BANGLADESH
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Santanu Sarma, Assistant Field Officer, UNHCR:
“UNHCR Cox’s Bazar has taken all the initiatives to double the distribution of soaps, as well as the distribution of female hygiene kits in the camp. There are standard queues maintaining safe distance from each other.”
20. Tracking shot, veiled Rohingya woman carrying a young boy in her arms
21. Wide shot, man being sprayed down with disinfected as he enters a registration center
22. Med shot, refugees entering the relief center
23. Wide shot, billboards with information and description
24. SOUNDBITE (English) Steven Corliss, UNHCR Representative in Bangladesh:
“Fortunately, there are no confirmed cases yet in the settlements, but we do have the sense that it’s only a matter of time, and that’s why we are working as fast as we can to put the preparations in place that will allow us to respond.”
FILE – 27 SEPTEMBER 2017, KUTUPALONG REFUGEE SETTLEMENT, BANGLADESH
25. Aerial shot, refugee camp
Though no cases of coronavirus have been confirmed among Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, UNHCR and its partners are racing to shore up health services and guard against a worst-case scenario in the world’s largest refugee settlement.
Since August 2017, nearly 750,000 Rohingyas have fled violence in Myanmar and sought shelter in neighbouring Bangladesh. They joined other Rohingya refugees who left during earlier waves of displacement. One of the areas where they have settled, Kutupalong, has grown to become the largest refugee settlement in the world, with more than 600,000 people living in an area of just 13 square kilometres, stretching infrastructure and services to their limits.
SOUNDBITE (English) Sandra Harlass, Senior Public Health Officer, UNHCR:
“In the refugee camps we, for example, trained 1,200 community health workers to spread messages on hygiene prevention, on what is COVID, what are signs and symptoms, how can you prevent it as a family, and how can social distancing contribute.”
The Bangladesh government has responded generously throughout the latest crisis. Local Bangladeshi villages have also taken in new arrivals. The humanitarian response in Bangladesh remains focused on meeting the massive humanitarian needs and on mitigating the impact of the seasonal monsoon rains.
SOUNDBITE (English) Santanu Sarma, Assistant Field Officer, UNHCR:
“UNHCR Cox’s Bazar has taken all the initiatives to double the distribution of soaps, as well as the distribution of female hygiene kits in the camp. There are standard queues maintaining safe distance from each other.”
However, additional international support is urgently needed to step up the assistance from purely humanitarian and day-to-day support towards addressing medium-term challenges, including education, registration, and programmes to protect the most vulnerable refugees – including children, women and persons with specific needs. UNHCR is also now supporting a broader, government-led effort to prepare to combat COVID-19 in the likely event that the pandemic reaches the very densely populated Rohingya communities.
SOUNDBITE (English) Steven Corliss, UNHCR Representative in Bangladesh:
“Fortunately, there are no confirmed cases yet in the settlements, but we do have the sense that it’s only a matter of time, and that’s why we are working as fast as we can to put the preparations in place that will allow us to respond.”
The coronavirus pandemic could be devastating to vulnerable refugee communities.
