Coronavirus could kill 2 million in Bangladesh - warns leaked UN memo
In Bangladesh up to two million people could be in danger of dying from Covid-19. (Subscribe: )
That’s according to a leaked memo from the United Nations which was circulated among diplomats in the capital Dhaka. It questioned the government’s wisdom in sending an estimated nine-million people out of the capital ahead of a national shutdown.
Amnesty International has warned of the extreme risk to more than a million Rohingya refugees in camps in southern Bangladesh.
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