A 71-year-old man has become the first Rohingya living in vast refugee camps in Bangladesh to die from the coronavirus, an official said Tuesday.
Health experts have long warned that the coronavirus could race through the vast refugee camps in Bangladesh AFP/Suzauddin RUBELDHAKA: A 71-year-old man has become the first Rohingya living in vast refugee camps in Bangladesh to die from the coronavirus, an official said Tuesday .
Bhuiyan said the victim died in an isolation centre run by the medical charity Doctors Without Borders and was buried in the camp the same day."We are going to speak to administrators in the camp and alert people about the death," Bhuiyan said, adding they were trying to find people the deceased had been in contact with.
In early April authorities imposed a complete lockdown on the district - home to 3.4 million people including the refugees - after a number of infections were recorded.Officials have since blocked roads leading to several areas of the camps where most of the infections have been recorded.Bangladesh and UN authorities have prepared seven isolation centres with the capacity to treat more than 700 patients inside the camps.
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