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Migrants living in camps have faced a much higher risk of transmitting and getting COVID-19. Life in these camps has featured overcrowding, inadequate sanitation, poor nutrition, and very poor health care. [6] Rises in COVID-19 cases were reported in migrant and refugee camps in 2020 in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and on Greek islands. [7]
Disease surveillance in refugee camps was already a major part of outbreak response. Contact tracing in refugee camps has become especially important to minimize COVID-19 transmission. [49] In places like Cox's Bazar, the largest refugee settlement in the world, [49] the World Health Organization now tests over 500 samples for COVID-19 a day. [49]
On 1 April 2020, the Executive Director of UNICEF warned that an outbreak of COVID-19 in the world's refugee camps was "looking imminent". [182] On 13 April, UNICEF, the WHO, and other health partners supporting the Measles & Rubella Initiative (M&RI) warned that over 117 million children in 37 countries risked missing out on a measles vaccine ...
The executive director of the UN Children's Fund warned that an outbreak of COVID-19 in the world's refugee camps was "looking imminent". [4] The UNHCR and International Organization for Migration emphasized that the worldwide COVID-19 emergency was compounding the already desperate situation for many refugees and migrants from Venezuela. [5]
On 21 May, the WHO and the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) signed a new pact, an update, and expansion of a 1997 agreement, funded by the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund, to better protect approximately 70 million people affected by COVID-19 in low and middle-income countries with vulnerable health systems.
Overcrowded refugee camps in eastern Chad are set to run out of money soon, exacerbating a dire humanitarian crisis caused by the spillover from a deadly conflict in Sudan, the United Nations said.
Thousands of Rohingya insurgents, like 32-year-old Rafiq, have emerged from camps housing over a million refugees in Cox's Bazar, where militant recruitment and violence have surged this year ...
The old Moria Refugee Camp. Residents were forced to spend days sleeping along a main road before they could enter the new temporary camp. [2] [3] that had been closed off by army vehicles after the fire. They were then slowly admitted to the new camp after being tested for coronavirus. [4]