Nigeria’s Displaced Camps Among Most Vulnerable to Coronavirus
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- VOA News
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- VOA News
- Publication Date:
- 16 April 2020
- Tags:
- Nigeria, Coronavirus, Refugees and Displacement
More than a decade of Boko Haram militant attacks have displaced over two million Nigerians in the north, with hundreds of thousands living in internally displaced people's camps.⯠Medical experts worry the camps lack the spacing and sanitary conditions to prevent an outbreak of coronavirus, which has so far infected more than 370 people in Nigeria and killed 10.⯠Ifiok Ettang reports from Jos, Nigeria.
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