A Rohingya man has become the first person to test positive for COVID-19 in the vast refugee camps in Bangladesh that is home to almost one million people,
Health experts have long warned that the virus could race through the cramped, sewage-soaked alleys of the camps in the Cox's Bazar district, where the persecuted Muslim minority have been housed in canvas and bamboo shacks since they fled a military offensive in neigbouring Myanmar more than two years ago.The World Health Organisation later said one case was of a Rohingya man, and the other was of a local man who lived near the camp and was being treated at a clinic inside the area.
In early April authorities imposed a complete lockdown on the surrounding Cox's Bazar district after a number of COVID-19 cases, restricting all traffic in and out of the camps. The Bangladesh government"should immediately lift phone and internet restrictions in the camps that are holding back vital communications," he 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," the aid agency's Bangladesh health director Shamim Jahan said in a statement.
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