Rohingya artists tackle Covid-19 fears as refugees wait for vaccines, South Asia News & Top Stories


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DHAKA (REUTERS) - Busy with his brushes beneath a tarpaulin roof, Rohingya artist Ansar Ullah works on a mural depicting a giant vial of Covid-19 vaccine towering over the ramshackle homes of the world's largest refugee settlement in Bangladesh. More than 700,000 Rohingya who fled Myanmar in 2017 live in Bangladesh's refugee camps, where a vaccination drive scheduled to start in March has been postponed indefinitely due to delays in supplies from the global Covax vaccine-sharing programme, the United Nations said. Covid-19 cases have remained relatively low despite a recent uptick, but the artists said many refugees have misconceptions about...