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  • No, no, no.

  • There's no space.

  • They unheard unheeded in the chaos in the land of rivers millions a panicked rush to leave doctor after the government declared not a national emergency but a 10 day national holiday to combat Kobe.

  • 19.

  • In a poor country with close to 180 million people crammed in social distancing, self isolation are luxuries for the rich.

  • On Independence Day, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said Bangladesh had courageously face down past dangers acted.

  • We won our war of independence, she said on Corona.

  • Virus is a war to we will win again.

  • Yeah.

  • A snooze of sweeping contagion spread Last month.

  • A well meaning religious leader gathered the faithful to pray for deliverance, offering healing Koranic verses.

  • Vast prayer event triggered alarm The true extent of infection in Bangladesh is unknown on attempted national lock down has left already impoverished people jobless.

  • Hungary increasingly desperate and dependent on handouts, with experts warning that only the immediate implementation of aggressive countermeasures can avert what they call unimaginable damage.

  • The government's deployed troops to enforce social distancing streets sprayed with disinfectant.

  • A senior Bangladeshi doctor, insisting on anonymity, told Channel Four news they done what they could to prepare, but resources are limited.

  • Our people are not aware of the danger, he said.

  • If there is mass infection, our health system will be totally devastated.

  • This disease has already disrupted what seemed to be stable, well resourced nations, so Bangladesh has an enormous challenge in front of it.

  • Undoubtedly in the capital, the lock down has left the already impoverished, hungry and desperate, dependent on the generosity of wealthier people.

  • Coral slum DACA a vast tin roof chanting whose 50,000 densely packed residents have no ivory towers to retreat to.

  • The people of Kerala know about the virus but feel helpless.

  • The lady in red says.

  • If they can't work, they'll starve on.

  • Her.

  • Friend complains that food is being distributed unfairly.

  • Asthma's aware off the two meter rule.

  • Thank you, I don't know.

  • The government is distributing food to the poor and has offered emergency support.

  • Tau four million Bangladeshis in the garment sector, many of whom now face destitution after global clothing brands canceled, tuned 1/2 £1,000,000,000 worth of orders, including several leading British retailers.

  • The Garment Manufacturers Association has appealed to fashion firms toe honor contracts if we don't have that support.

  • For the next three months, we will be having 4.1 million workers literally out on the streets, and this is a social chaos we can not afford.

  • Only a handful of firms have said they will pay for existing orders.

  • In the far south of one of the world's most densely populated countries, the world's biggest refugee camp, crammed with over a 1,000,000 ro hinge on Muslims who fled ethnic cleansing and next door Burma.

  • Many lived 12 or mortar a room in bamboo and plastic shacks, a density four times that of high rise New York City prime conditions.

  • But corona, which thrives in confined spaces, threatening to turn crisis into catastrophe.

  • Loudspeakers mounted on order rituals broadcast covert 19 warnings and public health advice.

  • Mobile networks and the Internet have long been curtailed in these camps by the government on unspecified security grounds, so volunteers have resorted to spreading the message by megaphone.

  • Sayeeda Begum, a mum with seven Children, says she's alarmed by what she's hearing about this deadly disease.

  • She's teaching the Corona scrub on top tips, which for most of us are life saving practicalities.

  • But here are largely theory way need so much soap and water, she says.

  • One family might have 10 or 15 members.

  • All need soap.

  • Every house is full of people.

  • How can we stay so far apart?

  • Were really worried.

  • For 22 year old son Wara, the message is simple.

  • Wash and pray, thehe, ma'am and religious scholars say.

  • It's a curse from Allah, she says that we have to pray Maur way have to read the Koran and beg Allah to help us.

  • Death stalked the re injure people in the pre Corona era.

  • They're used to it, the resilient but very vulnerable and hopelessly ill equipped to cope, if or more likely when covered, 19 strikes.

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