First Virus Case In Lebanon Palestinian Refugee Camp: UN
April 22, 2020
6:23 pm
A Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon was on lockdown Wednesday after the UN announced the first confirmed case of coronavirus in one of the country’s numerous and crowded camps.
The patient, a Palestinian refugee from Syria, has been taken to the state-run Rafic Hariri hospital in Beirut, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, said in a statement late Tuesday.
Medical experts visited the Wavel camp in the eastern Bekaa Valley on Wednesday to carry out tests, Lebanon’s official National News Agency said.
The testing was to focus on the woman’s relatives and people she has interacted with, as well …
