Zafor Alam (62) lives in Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh. He normally earns a daily wage of 500 taka ($6 US) by selling tea and biscuits but has not been able to earn a single taka since the lockdown was enforced in April.
Sida, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, has signed a new four-year agreement with HelpAge International to support the organisation's work to protect the lives and rights of older people around the world.
'The COVID-19 pandemic has brutally exposed longstanding issues in the way that older people have been neglected and excluded in humanitarian responses.'
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The UN's Humanitarian Response Plan on COVID-19 must be revised to better reflect the specific risks faced by older people caught up in humanitarian crises, HelpAge International said today.
Two cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in Cox s Bazar. If it spreads, it will 'spiral out of control' and be 'catastrophic'.
With the confirmation of the first COVID-19 cases in Myanmar on 23 March, thousands of older people's lives are now at risk if the outbreak is not kept under control. The Government and society must do all it can to educate citizens on the risks and how to prevent infection, according to HelpAge International.
