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Aid Groups Warn of COVID-19 Outbreak at Ethiopian Refugee Camp in Sudan

Naba Mohiedeen

   KHARTOUM - Aid workers this week confirmed several cases of COVID-19 in
   Sudan's camps for refugees who fled the fighting in Ethiopia's Tigray
   Region. The United Nations refugee agency and aid group Mercy Corps say
   an urgent intervention is needed to avoid a humanitarian disaster.

   Aid organizations reported four confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Sudan's
   Um Rakouba camp for Ethiopian refugees this week.

   The camp houses 25,000 people who have arrived since November, living
   in very basic, overcrowded conditions that present an opportunity for
   the coronavirus to easily spread.

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