About: http://data.cimple.eu/news-article/003e94cd1e9c4051f2eb6fba24f38041af186cfae1100540a5357519     Goto   Sponge   NotDistinct   Permalink

An Entity of Type : schema:NewsArticle, within Data Space : data.cimple.eu associated with source document(s)

AttributesValues
rdf:type
schema:articleBody
  • At least 15 Syrian refugees living in the same building in east Lebanon have tested positive for COVID-19, the United Nations said Wednesday, ahead of plans to screen thousands of refugees. "There are 15 confirmed cases of COVID-19 among Syrian refugees in Majdal Anjar," a town in the Bekaa Valley, said Lisa Abou Khaled of UNHCR, the UN's refugee agency. Lebanon has officially recorded 1,140 novel coronavirus cases, including 26 deaths. Before the outbreak in Majdal Anjar, only one other Syrian refugee in Lebanon had tested positive for Covid-19, UNHCR says. Among Lebanon's Palestinian refugee population, at least six cases have been detected in a camp in the Bekaa Valley. Although the coronavirus outbreak among Lebanon's refugee population remains limited, aid groups are concerned that overcrowded settlements could make refugees especially vulnerable to the virus. The new Covid-19 cases in Majdal Anjar are now in self-isolation, receiving food and disinfection kits from UNHCR, Abou Khaled said. The spokesperson said UNHCR and Lebanon's health ministry have "initiated a testing campaign in informal settlements and collective shelters, focusing on areas with high concentration of refugees". "Thousands of refugees will be included in the testing campaign... over the next weeks," she added. UNHCR covers the cost of screening, medical treatment and hospitalisation for refugees infected with the coronavirus. Lebanon, a small country of 4.5 million people, says it hosts 1.5 million Syrians, including nearly a million refugees registered with the United Nations. tgg/ho/cm
schema:headline
  • Fifteen Syrian refugees in Lebanon test positive for Covid-19
schema:mentions
schema:author
schema:datePublished
http://data.cimple...sPoliticalLeaning
http://data.cimple...logy#hasSentiment
http://data.cimple...readability_score
Faceted Search & Find service v1.16.115 as of Oct 09 2023


Alternative Linked Data Documents: ODE     Content Formats:   [cxml] [csv]     RDF   [text] [turtle] [ld+json] [rdf+json] [rdf+xml]     ODATA   [atom+xml] [odata+json]     Microdata   [microdata+json] [html]    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3238 as of Jul 16 2024, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-musl), Single-Server Edition (126 GB total memory, 11 GB memory in use)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2025 OpenLink Software