International human rights warning of the danger of the spread of corona among Myanmar Muslims

Human Rights Watch, the international organization for the defense of rights and freedoms, warned of the danger of the outbreak of the new Corona virus, which affects the lives of Arakan Muslims in camps in Myanmar.

The organization indicated - in a report yesterday - that the conditions of the camps that suffer from densities are large, do not apply hygiene standards, and there are no spaces to allow movement, making the refugees vulnerable to rapid infection of the Corona virus if a person is infected with it.

The report pointed out that 40 people in those camps use the same toilet, and 600 of them use the same tap, noting that these conditions would greatly facilitate the spread of the virus.

The report indicated that the high density of these camps makes it difficult to take the personal distance between inmates, noting that the authorities in Myanmar are restricting the freedom of travel of refugees.

He stressed that about 350 thousand people are on the cusp of a health disaster, pointing out that refugees are not being tested for the virus.

The report called on the government of Myanmar to lift the restrictions imposed on Arakan Muslims, stressing at the same time the need to allocate spaces for them to take the required distances between refugees to prevent the transmission of the virus.

"The health conditions in the camps are basically catastrophic, but with the possibility of an outbreak of the Coronavirus under these conditions, the lives of the refugees are in great danger," said Brad Adams, a senior official in the report, in the report.

Across Myanmar, the Corona virus has been tested for nearly 300 people, at a time when the government is facing heavy criticism for its slow movement to tackle the deadly virus outbreak.

This comes at a time when the World Health Organization (WHO) sees Myanmar's health system as one of the most inadequate systems around the world.

To date, 15 people have been infected with the virus in Myanmar, while one person has died as a result of infection.

As of Wednesday evening, Corona affected nearly 927,000 people worldwide, more than 46,000 of whom died, while about 193,000 recovered.

Since August 25, 2017, the Myanmar armed forces and Buddhist militias have launched a military campaign and massacres against the Rohingya in Arakan.

Ongoing crimes since then have resulted in the deaths of thousands of Rohingya people, according to identical local and international sources, as well as the nearly one million asylum-seekers in Bangladesh, according to the United Nations.

The United Nations classifies the Rohingya "the most persecuted minority in the world."