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Australia for UNHCR
@UNrefugees - 30/06/2020
Astrid van Genderen Stort from @Refugees: "We have seen highs and lows in the past three months as we have seen in our history working with refugees."
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Australia for UNHCR
@UNrefugees - 30/06/2020
Astrid van Genderen Stort from @Refugees: "Often access to internet is hardly available so we have to inform refugees on how to prevent themselves from getting COVID or what to do if they get COVID.”
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Australia for UNHCR
@UNrefugees - 30/06/2020
Astrid van Genderen Stort from @Refugees: “We are informing refugees what they have to do and provide them with the information."
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Australia for UNHCR
@UNrefugees - 30/06/2020
Astrid van Genderen Stort from @Refugees: "but also cash assistance because these refugees don't have access to many livelihood opportunities anymore."
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Australia for UNHCR
@UNrefugees - 30/06/2020
Astrid van Genderen Stort from @Refugees: "The needs are enormous. We're in 134 countries. We need to put preparedness measures in place including hand washing stations, a huge lift in PPE..."
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Australia for UNHCR
@UNrefugees - 30/06/2020
Astrid van Genderen Stort from @Refugees: “It has been a race around the clock.”
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Australia for UNHCR
@UNrefugees - 30/06/2020
“The other issues that are important are the social economic impacts of COVID. A lot of people isolated now were dependent on the little money they could gain. They don’t have that extra money. We fear for the future to see the impact of COVID and the socio economic impact.”
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Australia for UNHCR
@UNrefugees - 30/06/2020
Astrid van Genderen Stort from @Refugees: Astrid - “COVID is an emergency, but there are many other emergencies... The situation in the world doesn’t stop. It is an emergency on top of another emergency.”
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Australia for UNHCR
@UNrefugees - 30/06/2020
Astrid van Genderen Stort from @Refugees: "We've been seeing that poverty often strikes before COVID does... We fear definitely for the future about the socio-economic impact."
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Australia for UNHCR
@UNrefugees - 30/06/2020
Astrid van Genderen Stort from @Refugees: "We've not seen major outbreaks in the refugee camps. We've seen COVID arrive in Cox's Bazaar in Bangladesh and Africa, but no major outbreaks yet... We've worked so hard to prepare but COVID is still on the rise."
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