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‘Distancing is impossible’: refugee camps race to avert coronavirus catastrophe

From Bangladesh to Somalia, researchers and aid workers are taking different steps to protect people among the most vulnerable to the pandemic.
  1. Nidhi Subbaraman
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There are 70 million refugees, displaced people and asylum seekers around the world. Close living quarters, significant underlying health problems and limited access to sanitation and medical care mean that COVID-19 — which has no known treatment and has brought some of the best health systems in the world to their knees — poses an outsized threat to these communities.

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Nature 581, 18 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01219-6

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