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COVID-19 Has Arrived In Rohingya Refugee Camps And Aid Workers Fear The Worst

Crowded, unsanitary conditions in the camps - located across the border from Myanmar in Bangladesh - threaten a rapid escalation of infections among the one million refugees living there.

It's the moment international aid groups have been dreading for months—the coronavirus has reached the sprawling refugee camps in the Cox's Bazar district of southern Bangladesh, home to roughly a million Rohingya refugees.

Bangladesh officials said on Thursday that at least two people living in or adjacent to the

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