A 25-year-old NGO volunteer, Camp 1W also complained about the social impacts of the lockdown: Now, we can't even attend funerals of our close relatives. The sons or daughters can't visit their parents. We can't meet friends and relatives now which we could do before the lockdown. We can't call our relatives from different camps to have consultations together on marriage or other important and ritual matters which is like our culture. A 23-year-old man in Camp 1E explained that people are forced to travel “by foot, secretly” if they must go to another camp, as roads were closed down due to the lockdown. While some of the challenges described above have been felt globally in connection with the Covid-19 pandemic—such as inability to attend the birth of grandchildren or prepare proper funerals for the deceased—Rohingya refugees living in Cox’s Bazar camps are especially hard hit by the severed connections between families and with relatives abroad. For those living in the camps, lockdown further deprives them of family networks and support systems that were already under strain before the pandemic. (4) Perceptions of medical clinic and hospitals As they navigate the fear and confusion wrought by the pandemic, camp residents report trepidation around receiving medical care from camp health clinics in Cox’s Bazar. The medical personnel of these clinics are staffed entirely by non-Rohingya, mainly Bangladeshi staff. As noted in the earlier ‘Flash Report’, Rohingya community members recounted hearing rumors that led them to fear being forcibly tested for COVID-19 at clinics and then involuntarily placed in isolation away from their families. As the ‘Flash Report’ further noted, there are even rumors that patients could be killed, or that the bodies of deceased Covid-19 patients will be withheld from family members. These rumors compound the mistrust that camp residents already felt toward health clinics, and fueled community perceptions that health infrastructure in the camps is weak overall. A common complaint heard in the camps prior to the pandemic is that clinics “just provide Paracetamol for every disease.” This perception has continued since the onset of Covid-19, contributing to generally low expectations of camp residents 15

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