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Chasing Life

Covid-19 in the World's Largest Refugee Camp

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.58K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

It’s World Refugee Day on June 20, a time to commemorate the most vulnerable populations around the world. CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta turns to Bex Wright, who covers the Rohingya refugee crisis for CNN, and David Miliband, the CEO of the International Rescue Committee, to talk about how we can never be free of a global pandemic unless everywhere in the world is safe. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I want you to imagine for a moment life in a refugee camp.

0:08.9

You and your family, packed in a dense, overcrowded space.

0:13.4

You share a bathroom with everyone in the community.

0:16.3

You try to wash your hands, but there's barely any soap and water.

0:21.3

Now think about all that in the middle of a pandemic.

0:27.6

Even all that's going on in the country right now, it's sometimes hard to think about

0:31.6

the plight of others far away.

0:34.6

But when we say we're all in this together, that means everyone.

0:40.1

One of the most vulnerable populations on the front lines of coronavirus are the world's

0:44.8

refugees.

0:46.5

My mom lived the first 12 years of her life as a refugee, and I often think about what

0:51.8

her life would have been, had it also been in the middle of a pandemic.

0:56.8

In this episode, my colleague, Bex Wright, who's based in Hong Kong, and covers the Rohingya,

1:01.5

shares the story of one of the most at-risk communities in the world.

1:06.5

I'm Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent, and this is coronavirus, fact versus fiction.

1:14.8

Thank you Sanjay.

1:19.6

Now the Rohingya are an ethnic Muslim minority in the northwest of Myanmar, which is a majority

1:25.5

Buddhist country and formerly known as Burma.

1:29.0

I first started covering them in 2016 as they began to flee Myanmar.

1:34.1

A lot of them have actually been violently driven out as the government doesn't recognize

1:39.0

them as legitimate citizens.

1:41.6

The UN describes them as the most persecuted minority on Earth.

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