TIL Desk/World/Dhaka/ Bangladesh has confirmed the first coronavirus case among the Rohingya refugees after managing to keeping the crowded camps in the south of the country free from the disease for weeks. “Today we have found two cases in the refugee camp area. One of them is a refugee: a man in his 30s. We are trying to confirm the identity of the other person,” Mahbubur Rahman, the health chief of Bangladesh”s southern Cox”s Bazar district, told.
Rahman said that authorities had already made the necessary preparations to face a potential COVID-19 outbreak among the refugees living in camps in the country. “We have 200 isolation beds ready for the refugees and other preparations also have been taken. We will now take the infected refugee to an isolation facility in the camp,” he said.
Quoting Bangladesh authorities, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees said that the second infected person belonged to the community in the area. Both had presented themselves to health facilities run by the agency”s humanitarian partners in the Ukhiya region, where samples were taken, Louise Donovan, a UNHCR spokesperson in Cox”s Bazar, told.
