Rohingya Refugee Camps Likely a Catastrophic Covid-19 Incubator

Already riddled with diarrhea, diptheria and other diseases, camps face disaster

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By: Michele Penna

The first case of Covid-19, the enormously contagious coronavirus, has been recorded in Cox’s Bazar, the narrow district in southern Bangladesh where hundreds of thousands of ethnic Rohingya refugees fleeing violence in Myanmar are crammed into shacks, with little clean water and insufficient, non-nutritious food.