JERUSALEM — Like many things, social distancing is a luxury unavailable to the residents of al-Shati, a refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip. Almost 86,000 Palestinians, living sometimes 12 to an apartment, are packed within a quarter-square-mile of density and despair ready made for a coronavirus explosion.
Washington Post: Middle East’s refugees face COVID-19 nightmare
Displaced Syrian, some wearing protective masks, listen as medics hold an awareness campaign on how to be protected against the novel coronavirus pandemic, in a camp for displaced people in Kafr Lusin, in the northwestern province of Idlib, following heavy storms on March 18, 2020.
