Coronavirus: Fears of humanitarian disaster as COVID-19 reaches Rohingya refugee camp – By Emily Mee (Sky News) / May 15 2020
A charity director says the disease could “devastate” the refugee and local population if swift action is not taken.
The first coronavirus case has been reported in one of the camps housing more than one million Rohingya refugees in southern Bangladesh.
A person from the Rohingya community and a local person from the Cox’s Bazar district both tested positive and have been isolated, according to Bangladesh’s refugee commissioner, Mahbub Alam Talukder.
A UN spokeswoman said teams were working to trace, quarantine and test anyone the patients may have come into contact with.
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