Geneva, Nov 22: The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is working with authorities in Bangladesh to urgently investigate high levels E coli contamination in water drawn from wells inside the Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar.
“The latest figures from the World Health Organisation suggest that 62 per cent of water available to households is contaminated,” UNICEF spokesperson Christophe Boulierac told reporters on Tuesday at the regular press briefing here in Geneva.
“We are also concerned by an increase in cases of acute watery diarrhoea (AWD) which have included several deaths,” he added.
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