Humanitarian experts warn the world is unprepared for COVID-19 outbreaks in fragile places.
Humanitarian experts and the United Nations are warning that day will come soon, posing a deadly threat to millions of people and demanding an urgent response from the international community -- but one that so far hasn't come together.
In those temporary shelters, the tactics used to prevent a COVID-19 outbreak like hand washing or social distancing are all but impossible, and health care systems -- already severely limited -- certainly don't include the sophisticated intensive care resources needed to combat respiratory infections brought on by the virus.
A member of the Syrian Civil Defence, also known as the "White Helmets", disinfects a tent in the Kafr Lusin camp for the displaced by the border with Turkey, in Syria's rebel-held northwestern province of Idlib, on March 24, 2020. In five years of war, much of the countries health care system has been destroyed, leading to deadly outbreaks of diseases rare in the developed world, such as cholera, with 1.3 million suspected cases of the disease to date, according to the World Health Organization -- a sign of how ghastly a COVID-19 outbreak would be in the country of nearly 29 million.
In Myanmar, for example, the military could use the coronavirus outbreak as an opportunity to increase attacks on the Rohingya population that is already made vulnerable by its paltry health care."The risk of genocide persists for this community," said Naomi Kikoler, the director of the Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide at the U.S.
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