The vast refugee camps in Bangladesh are home to almost one million people.
A Rohingya man has become the first person to test positive for COVID-19 in the vast refugee camps in Bangladesh that are home to almost one million people, officials said Thursday.
Bercaru said"rapid investigation teams" were being deployed to follow up on the two cases. The patients' contacts are being traced for quarantine and testing.- Virus to spread 'very rapidly' - But a senior US official who has visited the refugees said it was only a matter of time for the virus to reach.
"I have been calling on the Bangladeshi government to give internet access. It just seems to me ludicrous that they're not," Brownback told reporters in Washington. Refugees International's senior advocate for human rights, Daniel Sullivan, said the first COVID-19 case was the"realisation of a nightmare scenario".
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