Covid-19 outbreak in Rohingya camp contained, says Bangladesh
Only 724 Rohingya have been tested in the Bangladesh camps, with 54 found positive since the first cases were detected in May. – EPA pic, July 7, 2020.
A CORONAVIRUS outbreak among Rohingya refugees has been “successfully contained”, Bangladesh officials have said after fears that the disease spread rapidly in overcrowded camps. Nearly one million Rohingya live in squalid camps in southeastern Bangladesh, after fleeing a 2017 military crackdown in Myanmar, where the mostly Muslim community is a minority.
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