4.7 million people were affected by the floods in Bangladesh

Bangladesh was exposed to two cyclones earlier this year and has also imposed severe corona restrictions. At the same time, a quarter of the country is now under water in the floods that have been going on since the beginning of June. The reason is the heavy monsoon rains.

- We have a very difficult time. Our home has been flooded. There are no jobs, the situation is hopeless, says Nasim Begum who lives in one of the affected areas.

4.7 million people, of whom just over 1.9 million children, have been directly affected by the floods that have hit 31 of the country's 64 districts, according to Christine Johansson, aid adviser at the embassy in the capital Dhaka.

- There is much more water this year and it is feared to stay well into August, says Christine Johansson.

Just under a hundred people have so far been reported dead, many of them children who have drowned, according to TT. The floods are among the worst to hit the country in decades and it is people living along the river banks who are hardest hit.

- And it is usually the poor. It is poor farmers and farmers out of land who are the most affected.

People are now fleeing the bodies of water to areas where they can stay until the water recedes. The authorities have drawn up a plan to reach out with relief efforts, but according to Johansson, it is difficult to get supplies to everyone.

- It is such a scale of the crisis and it is worse this year, says Christine Johansson, and continues:

- It is not enough, it is so much at once. But of course it soothes and helps the people affected.

More than 200,000 people have been confirmed infected with covid-19 in Bangladesh. Of those, nearly 3,200 have died, according to Johns Hopkins University in the United States. As many people now gather in the areas that have escaped the water masses, fears are growing that the country's extensive corona restrictions will not be maintained.

- Of course it is a problem. But they have huge information campaigns to try to get people to think about social distancing, says Christine Johansson.