Coronavirus: Refugee camps bracing for ‘devastating’ impact

Looming threat of Covid-19 will be ‘more than a disaster’ to displaced people

Kurds, Turkey
(Image credit: Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images)

The coronavirus outbreak could threaten the lives of hundreds of thousands of refugees, according to warnings from doctors, aid workers and the United Nations.

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