Emergency teams raced Friday to prevent a coronavirus
“nightmare” in the world’s largest refugee settlement after the first reported cases in the giant shanties housing nearly one million Rohingya.
A 35-year-old man living in Kutupalong, the largest of the Rohingya camps, was the first to test positive. The man allegedly tried to flee but was found by police after a four-hour hunt. More than 700,000 people fled across the border after a 2017 Myanmar military crackdown on the Rohingya, who are now stuck in the camps, where there is barely room to move and sewage flows uncontrolled in the narrow alleys.Cox’s Bazar district health chef Mahbubur Rahman said an entire block in one camp, housing around 5,000 people, was shut off, and that all people linked to the three would be taken to isolation centres.
The UN refugee agency said 12 respiratory infection treatment centres were being established and up to 1,900 intensive care beds, five quarantine centres, and 20 isolation facilities were planned.Bangladesh authorities ordered a strict lockdown in early April in Cox’s Bazar district, which has 3.4 million people including the refugees — after a number of COVID-19 cases were found.
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