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2 July 2020

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or sanitise them using immediately in a with any surface. hugging, etc.
alcohol-based closed bin. Use flexed-
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unavailable.

Covid-19 Related Incident Mapping in Bangladesh

Update: 1 March- 27 June 2020

14 June- 20 June
Incidents of ignorance of medical Incidents of abandonment
14 professional/reticence to treat
non-COVID patients: 62 + 2 (21
from family/family
members/colleagues:
21 June- 27 June
June – 27 June) = 64 41+ 3 (21 – 27 June) = 44

217 10
Total incidents
WHY?
Denial to burial: 47 + 3 (21 Social stigma related to
June – 27 June) =50 medical professionals: 18
Forced eviction from Suicide from
Harassment/assault
home: 9 + 1 (21 – 27 social stigma: 2
originated from social stigma:
June) = 10
12+1 (21 June – 27 June) = 13

*Weekly Trend: The stigma-related incidents (10) associated with COVID-19 from June 21st to June 27th are
on the decline compared to the week before (14) from June 14th to June 20th.
*Eg. Ms. Sathi Khanam, a kidney patient was denied treatment by four hospitals in Dhaka city. She was sent
away for failing to produce COVID-19 test reports.
*Eg. An elderly man of around 70 years old was allegedly abandoned by his family members in Chandpur
district town. He was later rescued by a group of young people. People suspected that the relatives of the man
might have abandoned him over fears that he was infected with coronavirus, though the man did not show any
coronavirus symptoms.
*Eg. Ms. Mahmuda Begum, Assistant Commissioner (Land) of Jamalpur Sadar upazila was receiving treatment
from coronavirus infection (which she fell victim of while working to prevent coronavirus infection) in a rented
house. But the landlord and other tenants of the flat allegedly forced her to leave the house for the fear of

Verbal Abuse/ Social Stigma infection. Last Friday (June 19) she left home and moved elsewhere.
*Eg. An advocate named Mr. Krishna Kamal Dutta allegedly died with COVID-19 like symptoms in Rajshahi
city. No one touched his dead body for two hours in suspicion of contagion. Later Quantum Foundation
completed his funeral activities.

Relief Embezzlers: Other 0.93%

Relief Embezzlers: Politicians 1.90%
Relief Embezzlers: Businesses 1.49%
Selling counterfeit glove, Travelling without
mask, PPE, Oxygen masks and health care Businesses/Traders 26.53%
cylinders basics

Arranging social Violating government orders

gatherings (Wedding) regarding health care in the
business institutions

By Actors
Keeping shops/hotels Roaming around/bike
open against
Major riding/gossiping in
Expatriates 1.93%

government orders Reasons of roads

Others 2.82%
Fine/Penalty
Drivers 3.60%
Public 59.88%
Garments Workers 0.92%
Violating social Stockpiling government
distancing sanction rice

Price hike of daily

Relief embezzlement
necessities

Weekly Trend (Fined/ Penalized) 2606

544 11028
1413 Arrest Total Fine/Penalty
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dealers were arrested for rice embezzling this week. Including them, a total of 165 businessmen who
embezzled relief were fined and arrested so far.
· At least 425 were reportedly fined/penalized and 36 people were arrested all over Bangladesh during
21 June-27 June 2020. Most of the fine and penalty accounted for the violation of health and safety
regulations public, increasing prices and selling adulterated medicines to the public, etc.
Fine/ Penalty/ Punishment

Division wise Rumor Related Arrests Weekly Trend (Incident)

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Rumors

Report on Fear related to COVID-19 (30 May -27 June)

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** Media coverage of COVID-19 pandemic which evokes fear in the minds of the people.
*Eg. 43 districts out of 64 districts do not have corona testing centers that not only raise fear but also create a huge pressure to
the corona testing centers at Dhaka city.
*Eg. Bangladesh has witnessed another COVID-19 death record. It took only 12 days to add more 500 deaths totaling 1,502
while the second 500 took 16 days and first 500 took 79 days of corona transmission in the country.
*Eg. ILO has published a report saying that, millions of migrant workers would be forced to return home because of the
COVID-19 pandemic after losing their jobs and would face unemployment and poverty in their home countries. It is also
estimated that there are 164 million migrant workers worldwide while half of them are women.
*Eg. BIDS after conducting a survey among 29,909 people from May 5 to 29, 2020 published a report said that Bangladesh
will have 16.4 million new poor in 2020 as the income of working-class in urban and rural areas have fallen sharply due to the Fear**
lockdown to stop the spread of COVID-19 pandemic.

Weekly Trend 18 Fleeing after being

15 tested positives
13 13 (patients/relatives

132
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** Media coverage of someone's mental condition related to COVID-19 pandemic.

*Eg. A suspected COVID-19 patient who was undergoing treatment with coronavirus like symptoms at the isolation unit of
Jashore General Hospital fled from the hospital.
*Eg. A man named Rezaul Haque (50) ran away from home in Gangni of Meherpur. He fled the house on Monday (June 22)
morning. Gangni Police Station OC Obaidur Rahman said police were sent to Rezaul's house after receiving information that he
had fled the house. He was not found there.
Paranoia** *Eg. A family was shifting from Farmgate's Tajkuipara area to Kamrangir Char area due to corona pandemic at Kazi Nazrul
Avenue of Dhaka capital city.

Weekly Trend 206 205 198

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50 48 Total Deaths
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** Please note that several duplications in the information retrieved from the
secondary sources were identified. After re-tracing each case, the Khulna
duplications were removed. Again, the current data suggests the reported
"COVID-like symptoms" but they may not be related to COVID-19. 185 Barishal
Chattogram
*** Please note that they may not be related to COVID-19 because these are 170
451
reported with symptoms which has similarity and published in the
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positive?

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Private Firm/NGOs 21.01%

Political 11.50%
14% 1709
RISE Total Incidents

University 6.04%
Since Last Week

Voluntary 31.75%
Law Enforcement/Local Government 15.14%

*Eg. A remote control robot was developed to provide treatment to the corona infected patients by the students of
20th batch of Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Varendra University (VU) in Rajshahi.
*Eg. Coca-Cola and Care Bangladesh handed over PPEs for doctors and nurses who are tending to COVID-19
patients which included 835 PPE for frontline health workers, 1000 eye shields, 2600 N-95 face masks, 10,000
disposable hand gloves, 50 litres of hand sanitiser, 100 bottles of hand rub, 40 oxygen cylinders, 10,000 biohazard
garbage bags and 12 thermal scanners to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) in Dhaka.
*Eg. Bangladesh Army has taken an initiative to open 1000-bed Isolation Center, to provide corona infected
patients, at DNCC market in Mohakhali area of Dhaka capital city.
*Eg. Over 700 volunteers of Gausia Committee Bangladesh from Chattogram, buried 360 people without
discriminating religion, cast around the districts of Bangladesh. Besides this, they have distributed 20 oxygen
cylinders and during month of Ramadan, they have also distributed reliefs to 1,00,000 families.
Resilience
*Eg. Understanding the financial crisis due to the COVID-19, an owner waived the rent for two months to the
businessmen in his market in Sitakunda, Chattogram.

Protests Associated with COVID-19 (26 April -27 June) 16%

Weekly Trend Protests over Lockdown Rules, for
Accountability, against Lay-off, for
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25 27% Protests Against
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*Weekly Trend: Protests against better treatment and medical equipment (7) was the dominant type from June 21st to June
27th; followed by protests against proposed budget for not allocating sufficient money for healthcare by the leftist political
parties (4). Overall, the protests associated with the COVUD-19 pandemic were on the rise (16) from June 21st to June 27th
compared to the previous week (10).
*Eg. Agitated workers of Paradise Cables Ltd. protested against the authority for demanding their 13 months' unpaid salaries,
following a week-long strike, in front of Shromo (Labour) Bhaban at Dhaka capital city.
*Eg. The laborers of jute mills with the State-owned Jute Mill CBA-NN Association protested against the decision of closing
down the jute mills by the Bangladesh Jute Mill Corporation across Khulna district.
*Eg. Narayanganj Nagorik Committee formed a human chain to demand an ICU at the 300-bed hospital in Khanpur area in
front of the Press Club at Sadar upazila of Narayanganj district.
*Eg. "Brihottoro Khulna Unnoyon Somonnoy Committee" demanded to set three PCR labs in Khulna and one PCR lab in

Protest Bagerhat, Satkhira, and installment of required medical equipment for the hospitals in Khulna.
*Eg. All Left-wing parties protested and carried out a rally against the government decision for having low budget over the
health sector and demanded to increase it for 20% of total budget after raising their 11 points following the outbreak of
COVID-19 pandemic; Later, police intervened to cease their possession in front of Health Ministry of Dhaka capital city.

Violent Incident Related with COVID-19 (1 March -27 June 2020)

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Weekly Trend
*Eg. A woman was beaten to injury by the ward member for not giving
him the money that she received from the Prime Minister as gift during
the coronavirus outbreak at Brahmanbaria Sadar. She was told that the
money was sent to her number but she did not get it.
*Eg. Five persons were injured in a fight between two groups of men
over detaining smuggled government relief rice of the fishermen in
Morrelganj, Bagerhat.
*Eg. A Dhaka returnee graduate youth, named Enamul Haque Sweet,
allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself over being frustrated

Violent Incident
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COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC

(Last update: 1 July 2020, BST. 06:10 PM)
District wise distribution (Top 20)

Dhaka 27267
Bangladesh
149,258 Chattogram
Narayanganj
8035
5148
Total Confirmed Cumilla 3500
Gazipur 3270
62,108 Cox’s bazar 2506
Total Recovered Sylhet 2250
Noakhali 2153

1,888 Faridpur
Munshigonj
2047
1944
Total Deaths Khulna 1786
Mymensingh 1656
787,335 Barishal 1378
Narshingdi 1280
24 Hours Total Test
Kishoreganj 1083
Sunamganj 959
Laksmipur 874
3775 New cases 2484 Recovered 41 Deaths Chandpur 874
Rangpur 835
Feni 786
17,875 Test
Cases Test
Top 10 Areas in Dhaka City

Rank Location Total Rank Location Total

1 Mirpur 1427 6 Mugda 521
2 Uttara 707 7 Dhanmondi 495
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3 Mohammadpur 630 8 Mogbazar 368

4 Mohakhali 572 9 Khilgaon 343
5 Jatrabari 541 10 Tejgaon 340
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Source: IEDCR

South Asian Countries Last update: 1 July 2020, BST. 7:00 PM

Country Total Con rmed cases Total Deaths Total Recovered

India 585,481 17,400 347,912
Pakistan 213,470 4,395 100,802
Afganisthan 31,836 774 15,651
Nepal 14,046 30 4,656
Sri Lanka 2,047 11 1,748
Myanmar 299 6 222
Bhutan 77 0 48

Source: Johns Hopkins University

Top Ten Countries Last update: 1 July 2020, BST. 6:55 PM

USA Russia India

2636538 653479 585481

World Wide

10,499,833 314162
UK Spain
249271
Italy
240578

Total Confirmed

5,378,800 Brazil Peru

Total Recovered 1402041 285213
511,909 Chile Iran
230211
Total Deaths 279393
Source: Johns Hopkins University

Sources: The Daily Star, The Daily Prothom Alo, The Daily Ittefaq, The Daily New Age, The Daily Jugantor, The Daily Bangladesh Observer, Bangladnews24.com, Bdnews24.com,
Dhaka Tribune, Bangla Tribune, The Daily Purbokone, The Daily Karatoa, Sylheter Dak, Ajker Barta (Barishal), Ajker Mymensingh, Dainik Purbanchal (Khulna), Cox's Bazar News,
The Daily Samakal, Cox's Bazar Journal, Teknaf News, Ukhia News, DBC, BTV, Maasranga, Channel i.

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Dhaka, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh., E-mail: cgs@du.ac.bd, Web-Site: http://cgsdu.org/; http://peaceobservatory-cgs.org/#/
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