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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