Calm before the storm: Rohingya refugees shopping at a market area at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia, Bangladesh. — AFP
THE sewage-soaked alleys and cramped canvas and bamboo shacks that house one million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh are a horrifying scene for experts watching the coronavirus pandemic creep closer.
The wretched conditions in the camps, where most of the stateless Muslims arrived in 2017 to escape a Myanmar military clampdown across the nearby border, are fertile ground for any disease.
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