The World Health Organization and health partners in the Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, have been working round the clock to scale up measures to protect the refugees and their host communities from COVID-19, amidst the pandemic spread.
Photo credit: WHO Bangladesh“Protection of the most vulnerable population is central to WHO’s efforts as we continue to work with countries to control the pandemic by slowing down transmission and reducing mortality,” says Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, Regional Director, WHO South-East Asia.
Disease surveillance is at the heart of evidence-based response. WHO's early warning and response disease surveillance system in Cox’s Bazar provides crucial information on diseases of outbreak potential to