Rohingya refugee camps in southern Bangladesh recorded the highest number of single-day cases Sunday with 49 new infections, pushing the total tally to 992.
After testing 312 Rohingya, 49 were reported positive in the last 24 hours, the office of Bangladesh’s Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner (RRRC) said in a report released Sunday night.
The death toll among Rohingya from the virus in the world’s largest refugee camps also rose to 15, including two fatalities recorded in the last two days, the report added.
Bangladesh is home to more than 1.2 million stateless Rohingya, most of whom fled a brutal military crackdown in western Myanmar’s Rakhine state in August 2017.
Covid-19 has infected 167 million people and has killed 3.4 million across globe.
