Displacement, Disease and Disaster: How Rohingya Refugees Are Surviving In Bangladesh

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May 21, 2020

Rohingya refugees gather at a market as first cases of COVID-19 coronavirus have emerged in the area, in Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia on May 15, 2020. (Suzauddin Rubel/AFP/Getty Images)

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A cyclone has hit India and Bangladesh as both countries fight to contain the coronavirus. In Bangladesh, more than a million Rohingya refugees have seen the first confirmed cases in their camps.

Here & Now's Robin Young speaks with Dipankar Datta, Oxfam country director for Bangladesh.

This segment aired on May 21, 2020.

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