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Race to prevent coronavirus 'nightmare' in Rohingya camps

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📸 Munir Uz Zaman
Major Rohingya refugee camp populations in Bangladesh, as of April 30, 2020.

A Rohingya man has become the first person to test positive for COVID-19 in one of the camps

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@AFPgraphics #UPDATE Emergency teams raced on Friday to prevent a #coronavirus "nightmare" in the world's largest refugee settlement in Bangladesh after the first confirmed cases in a sprawling city of shacks housing nearly a million #Rohingya u.afp.com/3MJm #Kutupalong
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