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Arab League warns of coronvirus risk in Syria refugee camps

The Arab League urged that a humanitarian catastrophe could befall if the coronavirus pandemic spreads in refugee camps in Syria, Anadolu reports.

A declaration by the bloc’s 22 Arab nations came after a meeting between its Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul-Gheit and UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen.

They examined the alarming outcomes of the spread of the virus among refugees and asylum seekers, and the importance of an Idlib cease-fire agreement, inked March 5 between Turkey and Russia, to prevent the military escalation in the region.

The statement said many of those who live in camps do so in poor health conditions, and it underlined that 6.5 million Syrians have been internally displaced, and more than 5.6 million have fled Syria since 2011.

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