Rohingya refugees walking through one of the arterial roads at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. In the world's largest refugee camp, in southern Bangladesh, aid workers are racing to build isolation facilities. There's been little if any coronavirus testing in Cox's Bazar, where more than a million members of Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim minority are packed into the world's largest refugee camp. - AP
COX'S BAZAAR: Dozens of Rohingya refugees believed to have come from two boats stranded at sea for weeks as they tried to reach Malaysia landed on the Bangladesh coast on Sunday morning, Rohingya community leaders said.
Bangladesh has refused to let the two trawlers carrying about 500 people land on its territory despite UN calls to allow them in as a powerful storm bears down on the region.
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