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Dhaka
Some 15,000 Rohingya refugees are now under coronavirus quarantine in Bangladesh’s vast camps, officials said Monday, as the number of confirmed infections rose to 29.
Health experts have long warned that the virus could race through the cramped settlements, housing almost a million Muslims who fled violence in Myanmar, and officials had restricted movement to the area in April.
“None of the infections are critical. Most hardly show any symptoms. Still we have brought them in isolation centres and quarantined their families,” Toha Bhuiyan, a senior health official told AFP.
“We are trying to scale up testing as fast as possible to make sure that we can trace out all the infected people and their contacts,” Bhuiyan said.
Bangladesh on Monday notched up a record single-day spike in cases, with 1,975 new infections.
Dhaka
Some 15,000 Rohingya refugees are now under coronavirus quarantine in Bangladesh’s vast camps, officials said Monday, as the number of confirmed infections rose to 29.
Health experts have long warned that the virus could race through the cramped settlements, housing almost a million Muslims who fled violence in Myanmar, and officials had restricted movement to the area in April.
“None of the infections are critical. Most hardly show any symptoms. Still we have brought them in isolation centres and quarantined their families,” Toha Bhuiyan, a senior health official told AFP.
“We are trying to scale up testing as fast as possible to make sure that we can trace out all the infected people and their contacts,” Bhuiyan said.
Bangladesh on Monday notched up a record single-day spike in cases, with 1,975 new infections.
