The coronavirus has now reached the Rohingya refugee camps in southern Bangladesh, home to roughly one million refugees. And aid groups are fearing a humanitarian disaster.
A health worker wearing personal protective equipment in the Kutupalong Rohingya refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, last month. On Thursday, Bangladesh reported the area's first confirmed coronavirus infections.A health worker wearing personal protective equipment in the Kutupalong Rohingya refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, last month. On Thursday, Bangladesh reported the area's first confirmed coronavirus infections.
"I am scared, I am worried, but I also feel that this is a stark reminder how vulnerable the Rohingya refugees are," she said.In a statement"Now that the virus has entered the world's largest refugee settlement in Cox's Bazar we are looking at the very real prospect that thousands of people may die from COVID-19," he said.
"In the Rohingya refugee camps — home to nearly a million people — there are no intensive care beds at this moment."in the camps. He's worried about how many people have been in contact with those now quarantined, given how tightly the Rohingya are packed together in the camps. And even if they tried, argues the International Rescue Committee's Bangladesh country director Manish Agrawal, it still wouldn't be enough.
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