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Rukhsana Ahmed and Zeba Tasci

Refugee access to health care during COVID-19 should not be an afterthought

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to evolve and spread across the world, so will its disproportionate impact on refugees. With the majority of refugees

Opinion | BY RUKHSANA AHMED AND ZEBA TASCI | August 26, 2020

Rohingya refugees are pictured in the Kutupalong camp in Bangladesh in 2018. A recent study projected the potential impacts and burden of COVID-19 on Rohingya refugees from Myanmar, where a single introduction of the virus in the Kutupalong-Balukhali Expansion Site with 600,000 people would lead to up to 370 people infected within the first month and up to 589,000 people infected in 12 months. U.K. Department for International Development photograph by Russell Watkins

Refugee access to health care during COVID-19 should not be an afterthought

Opinion | BY RUKHSANA AHMED AND ZEBA TASCI | August 26, 2020

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to evolve and spread across the world, so will its disproportionate impact on refugees. With the majority of refugees

Refugee access to health care during COVID-19 should not be an afterthought

Opinion | BY RUKHSANA AHMED AND ZEBA TASCI | August 26, 2020

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to evolve and spread across the world, so will its disproportionate impact on refugees. With the majority of refugees

Rohingya refugees are pictured in the Kutupalong camp in Bangladesh in 2018. A recent study projected the potential impacts and burden of COVID-19 on Rohingya refugees from Myanmar, where a single introduction of the virus in the Kutupalong-Balukhali Expansion Site with 600,000 people would lead to up to 370 people infected within the first month and up to 589,000 people infected in 12 months. U.K. Department for International Development photograph by Russell Watkins