Turkish Refugee Camp

A large refugee camp in Idlib, near the Syian/Turkey border - Ghaith Alsayed/APThe U.N. children's agency said Tuesday that an estimated 46 million people - 19 million of them children - fled violence and conflict last year but remained in their home country, and millions more were displaced by disasters.A…

Two months ago, life was finally looking up for 33-year-old Mousab, a Syrian refugee living in Tunisia’s second-largest city, Sfax. He had recently used his savings to open a kebab restaurant and was looking forward to earning enough to marry his sweetheart. Then, in early March, COVID-19 struck. The lockdown…

By: Express Web Desk | New Delhi | Published: April 29, 2020 11:29:01 am Doctor Giovanni Passeri relaxes in the doctor’s lounge after completing a routine round of medical examinations during a night shift in his ward in the COVID-19 section of the Maggiore Hospital in Parma, northern Italy, Wednesday,…

The International Rescue Committee warned Tuesday of up to 1 billion COVID-19 cases and 3.2 million deaths in 34 countries that are confronting crises or at war, including Afghanistan, Syria and Yemen.  The IRC said an analysis of “potential response scenarios” found COVID-19 could cause between 500 million and 1 billion infections and between 1.7 and 3.2 million fatalities in those…

The International Rescue Committee warned Tuesday of up to 1 billion COVID-19 cases and 3.2 million deaths in 34 countries that are confronting crises or at war, including Afghanistan, Syria and Yemen.  The IRC said an analysis of “potential response scenarios” found COVID-19 could cause between 500 million and 1 billion infections and between 1.7 and 3.2 million fatalities in those…

The International Rescue Committee warned Tuesday of up to 1 billion COVID-19 cases and 3.2 million deaths in 34 countries that are confronting crises or at war, including Afghanistan, Syria and Yemen.  The IRC said an analysis of “potential response scenarios” found COVID-19 could cause between 500 million and 1 billion infections and between 1.7 and 3.2 million fatalities in those…

On a warm April evening in downtown Athens, Greece, Arash Hampay was handing out pink, plastic shopping bags filled with food, soap, hand sanitizer and face masks to refugees and the homeless.It's his way of helping the community fight against the coronavirus.“Just imagine thousands of homeless and refugee families that live…

While the Covid-19 pandemic has killed more than 180,000 people worldwide and infected more than 2.5 million, Syria has officially reported relatively few cases. If the epidemic were to worsen there, the death toll would be all the higher as the country, still under international sanctions, lacks basic medical equipment. Nine…

Photograph: Nabil Mounzer/EPAMedics are scrambling to contain a potential outbreak of Covid-19 in a Palestinian camp in Lebanon after a refugee tested positive for the virus, the first known case in one of the region’s most vulnerable communities.The patient, a woman in her 40s, is being treated at a state-run…

There are over 70 million people worldwide who have been driven from their homes by war and unrest, up to 10 million are packed into refugee camps and informal settlements, and almost none have been tested for the coronavirus. While the relative isolation of many camps may have slowed the…