{"id":19218,"date":"2020-06-11T23:48:33","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T14:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/11\/internet-ban-sparks-covid-19-rumours-in-rohingya-camp"},"modified":"2020-06-11T23:48:33","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T14:48:33","slug":"bangladesh-urged-to-lift-rohingya-internet-ban-as-covid-19-rumours-swirl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19218","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh urged to lift Rohingya internet ban as Covid-19 rumours swirl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Refugees said to be avoiding getting tested amid fears about being sent into isolation<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Rohingya leaders have urged Bangladesh to lift an internet ban imposed on a million refugees in the city of Cox\u2019s Bazar, warning that rumours and panic over Covid-19 is deterring people from getting tested.<\/p>\n<p>Limits on communication are exacerbating already dire conditions for the Rohingya refugees from Myanmar, who live in cramped bamboo huts with as many as eight family members to a room, and are dependent on communal taps and toilets. In some areas, basics such as soap are lacking.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/11\/internet-ban-sparks-covid-19-rumours-in-rohingya-camp\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Refugees said to be avoiding getting tested amid fears about being sent into isolationCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageRohingya leaders have urged Bangladesh to lift an internet ban imposed on a million refugees in the city o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1379,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[327,1069,59,351,82,494,85,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-global-development","category-internet","category-myanmar","category-refugees","category-rohingya","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1379"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19219,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19218\/revisions\/19219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}