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News is from refugee camp in Lebanon. A Palestinian woman from Syria putting up in a refugee camp in Lebanon has tested positive for the coronavirus. That’s first such case.
UN agency for Palestinian refugees says that Palestinian woman from Syria has become the first refugee living in a camp in Lebanon to test positive for the coronavirus. The patient has been shifted to a hospital. Now that has put health authorities in their toes to check if any other resident have also been infected.
Agencies said woman resided in the only Palestinian camp in eastern Lebanon. Lebanon, a country of 50 lakh has thousands of Palestinian refugees and their descendants. Majority of these of them living in camps that hardly have basic facility amid homes made from waste.
They have no access to public services, limited employment opportunities and no rights to ownership. The country is also home to more than 1 million Syrian refugees and other Syrians who are residents.
Lebanon has recorded 22 deaths from among 682 confirmed cases of COVID-19 till now. They include one Palestinian who lives outside a camp and three Syrian residents. Experts now fear that in crowded places such as camps the infection can spread fast. We hope measures we are taking will help us avoid outbreak, said Huda Samra, communications advisor for United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in Lebanon.
Samra said hospital staff tested 146 people at the camp on Wednesday, contacts of the woman.
