How refugee camps in Bangladesh are being defended against covid-19

By Andrew J Wight

SUZAUDDIN RUBEL/AFP through Getty Photography

Coronavirus has begun spreading around refugee settlements, but in a single in all the arena’s largest refugee camp complexes a worst-case scenario might additionally like been refrained from. A mathematical model flee earlier this one year by researchers at Johns Hopkins University – and now printed following gape analysis – might additionally like encouraged authorities to amplify measures that slowed the virus’s spread.

The Kutupalong-Balukhali Growth Net page in Bangladesh, containing 23 separate camps, is home to about 600,000 Rohingya folk who fled ongoing violence in neighbouring Myanmar. The population density …