Fire guts Covid-19 isolation centre at Myanmar Rohingya camp in Bangladesh

DHAKA, Jan 3 (Bernama): A dedicated Covid-19 isolation centre at a Myanmar Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh was gutted in a fire Sunday night (Jan 2), but the patients there were apparently unharmed, according to official sources.

"The fire broke out at around 7 pm local time [1300 GMT] and we doused it after two hour-long hectic efforts along with Rohingya refugees and locals,” a Ukhiya Fire Service and Civil Defense officer in Cox’s Bazaar told Anadolu Agency.