YANGON: Hundreds of thousands of people displaced by conflict in Myanmar face a health "catastrophe" from the Covid-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, a rights group warned, as international calls grow for an end to fighting.
Overcrowded camps with an estimated 350,000 people were "Covid-19 tinderboxes", Human Rights Watch said.
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