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

By Andrew J Wight

30 July 2020

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The population density is high in Bangladesh’s refugee camps

SUZAUDDIN RUBEL/AFP via Getty Images

Coronavirus has begun , but in one of the world’s largest refugee camp complexes a worst-case scenario may have been avoided. A mathematical model run earlier this year by researchers at Johns Hopkins University – and now published following peer review – may have encouraged authorities to amplify measures that slowed the virus’s spread.

The  in Bangladesh, containing 23 separate camps, is home to about 600,000 Rohingya people who fled ongoing violence in neighbouring Myanmar. The population density…

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