Crown confirmed in the world’s largest refugee camp … ‘1 million dense people’

Check-in 2020.05.15 09:25

Group infection is a concern due to the presence of coronavirus infectious diseases in the Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh, where one million people are concentrated.

According to AFP news on the 14th (local time), a health official in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh said: “I have quarantined two refugees who have been considered positive.”

The World Health Organization (WHO) explained: “One of them is a Rohingya man and the other is a local man who lives near a refugee camp.”

This is the first time that a definitive crown has emerged from a Rohingya refugee camp.

WHO spokeswoman Catalina Burkaru said: “We have sent a” rapid investigation team “to find out more about them, and we are tracking contacts for inspection and containment.”

Local authorities are also said to have strengthened measures and diagnostic tests to prevent the spread.

The BBC also reported that 1,900 refugees have been quarantined and are about to be processed.

Health experts have previously noted that viruses can spread in refugee camps where large numbers of people live in confined spaces.

Rohingya refugees flee to neighboring Bangladesh to escape persecution by the Myanmar government. Temporary buildings made of cloth and bamboo are concentrated, and the environment is poor, like sewage overflow in narrow alleys.

The International Relief Committee (IRC), a non-profit organization, emphasized that between 40,000 and 70,000 people per square kilometer live in the camp and said: “It is at least 1.6 times higher than the population density of Princess Diamante” .

“The virus has infiltrated the world’s largest refugee camp and faces a very realistic prospect that thousands of people may be killed,” said Shammim Jahan, Bangladesh’s chief of health for the Save the Children aid group.

The damage is said to be greater because there are no adequate medical facilities such as intensive care beds in the camp.

Early last month, Bangladeshi authorities blocked the area and restricted all vehicles from entering the camp after several confirmed cases occurred in the Cox’s Bazar region, where a total of 3.4 million people live, including a million refugees.

The number of first responders in the camp was reported to be reduced by 80%, and virus protection measures were taken, but the quarantine network was reported to have a hole.

“Unfortunately, the refugee camp is incredibly crowded,” said Sam Brownback, ambassador for international religious freedom at the State Department. “Unfortunately, the coronavirus will spread very quickly.”