Bangladesh Rohingya refugee camp fears fear of coronavirus

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Rohingya refugees walk along the road in the evening to Balukhali camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh in 2018 (illustration image). REUTERS / Mohammad Ponir Hossain

By: Sarah Bakaloglou

The world's largest refugee camp in Bangladesh lives in fear of the coronavirus. Nearly a million Rohingyas have taken refuge near the town of Cox's Bazar, after fleeing neighboring Burma, where the Muslim minority is persecuted. Camps where a race against the clock has started to prepare for Covid-19 because the density of the population and the unsanitary conditions make fear a very fast propagation of the epidemic if it declares itself there. Report from our correspondent in the region.

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