Abstract
Aims: The Paper will explore about the COVID- 19 social challenges confronted by the Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar of Bangladesh and will also discuss the role of India in providing medical assistance to Rohingyas in Bangladesh and further will explain a set of policy recommendations designed to improve the life chances of the Rohingya community both now and in the future.
 Study Design: Descriptive Study.
 Methodology: A detailed and related Review of literature of the previous work has been collected in order to extract the information about the vulnerable conditions of Rohingyas refugees in Bangladesh amid novel coronavirus. The paper is based on qualitative research design and the data has been collected from official reports, documents, newspaper, journal articles, books based on Rohingyas refugees in Bangladesh.
 Results: The COVID-19 pandemic represents a grave social threat to the Rohingya refugees in the camps of Bangladesh. Having fled decades of persecution by the Burmese military, the majority of Rohingya currently live in densely populated refugee camps in Bangladesh. Most are denied access to the internet, mobile phones, humanitarian aid, and sanitary conditions and living in congested camps—all of which heighten the risk of infection and contamination. Currently in 2021, Government of India and International Organization are providing COVID- 19 vaccines and medical assistance to Rohingyas in Bangladesh.
 Conclusion: Despite facing social impact from COVID- 19, Government of India are taking imperative steps, both to protect the Rohingya from widespread infection and to create the conditions whereby future tragedy can be preempted.
Highlights
Amongst the world’s most heavily persecuted minority communities are the Rohingya people who fled from Myanmar over the decades and are currently living in Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh [1]
In August 2017, Bangladesh saw a massive influx of Rohingya refugees into its territory in Cox’s Bazar from Rakhine state, following their violent persecution by the Myanmar authorities, (Fig. 1) and the United Nations described it as a textbook example of “ethnic cleansing”(UN REPORT, 2020)
Throughout the research it has been observed that COVID- 19 Pandemic has socially impacted on Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh and it is challenging to follow social distancing, isolation method, hygiene practices, good living conditions and sanitization treatment etc. at the Rohingya refugee camps
Summary
Amongst the world’s most heavily persecuted minority communities are the Rohingya people who fled from Myanmar over the decades and are currently living in Cox’s Bazar (a small town on the southeast coast) in Bangladesh [1]. About 600,000 Rohingyas left Myanmar in 2017 and joined the previously fled 200,000–300,000 Rohingya refugees, making the overall 1 million [2] Around 65% of them live in a very overcrowded camps in 5 square miles. Almost all of them are living in modest temporary shelters of 14 m 2 size built through bamboo and tarpaulins. They have limited access to clean water and sanitation [3]]. The majority of Rohingyas sleep on a plastic paper spread over the muddy floor in their tents. In these situations, keeping even minimum hygiene is difficult, and any contagious virus outbreak has the potential to kill thousands of people [4]
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