{"id":414160,"date":"2020-05-18T17:39:27","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T17:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.un.org\/feed\/view\/en\/audio\/2020\/05\/1064282"},"modified":"2020-05-18T17:39:27","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T17:39:27","slug":"covid-19-population-density-is-a-challenge-in-the-rohingya-camps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/05\/18\/covid-19-population-density-is-a-challenge-in-the-rohingya-camps\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: \u2018Population density is a challenge\u2019, in the Rohingya camps\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the first Rohingya refugee had tested positive for the new coronavirus late last week, in an overcrowded refugee camp in Bangladesh, the UN refugee agency (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/\" title=\"UN High Commissioner for Refugees\" class=\"word-link\" >UNHCR<\/a>) announced additional measures and appealed for funds to prevent further spread of the disease.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sheltering around 860,000 mainly Muslim Rohingyas who\u2019ve fled neighbouring Myanmar, the camps have a population density one and a half times higher than New York City, raising serious concerns about the potentially severe impact of the virus.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Communications Officer for UNHCR\u2019s Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific, Kasita Rochanakorn, described to UN News\u2019s Anshu Sharma, what action the agency was taking.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/feed\/view\/en\/audio\/2020\/05\/1064282\">UN News<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the first Rohingya refugee had tested positive for the new coronavirus late last week, in an overcrowded refugee camp in Bangladesh, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) announced additional measures and appealed for funds to prevent further spread of t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10500,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414160"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10500"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":414161,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414160\/revisions\/414161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}