Four new coronavirus cases in refugee camp in Lebanon

The four infected individuals are relatives of the first refugee woman who tested positive for the coronavirus in a Palestinian refugee camp this week.
A health worker and armed Palestinians gather under the portrait of their late leader Yasser Arafat at the Wavel Palestinian refugee camp (also known as the Jalil camp) in Lebanon's eastern Bekaa Valley, on April 24, 2020, after cases of infection by the novel coronavirus were detected there. - The residents of the Wavel camp were tested after a member of a household, a Palestinian refugee from Syria, was admitted to the state-run Rafic Hariri hospital in the capital Beirut for demonstrating COVID-19 sympt
A health worker and armed Palestinians gather under the portrait of their late leader Yasser Arafat at the Wavel Palestinian refugee camp (also known as the Jalil camp) in Lebanon's eastern Bekaa Valley, on April 24, 2020, after cases of infection by the novel coronavirus were detected there. - AFP via Getty Images
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Lebanon has recorded four new coronavirus cases in a Palestinian refugee camp, raising fears the virus could spread widely in the vulnerable community.

A Palestinian woman became the first refugee in the country to test positive for the virus on April 22. Now, four of her relatives in the camp in eastern Lebanon have also tested positive for the virus, The Associated Press reported April 24, citing the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.

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