First Coronavirus Case Confirmed Near Rohingya Refugee Camp In Cox's Bazar


A Bangladesh woman has been tested positive of deadly coronavirus near Rohingya refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar on March 25 marking the first case from the area. Moreover, the hospital in the town of Cox’s Bazar is at least an hour’s drive away from the sprawling camps which currently houses more than one million Muslim minority refugees who had fled from Myanmar in the face of ‘genocide’. An official from United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Louise Donovan told an international media outlet that no case of fatal COVID-19 has been confirmed among Rohingyas, yet. 
The official also acknowledged that the health and well-being of the refugees at world's largest refugee camp is their organisation’s top priority and assured that UNHCR is closely monitoring the situation ‘very seriously’. Just on March 20, the Bangladesh government had announced the suspension of most services from the refugee camps as a precautionary measure against the drastic spread of coronavirus. 

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