Lebanese authorities announced the registration of 68 cases of coronavirus among Bengal workers in a single day in a residential building in Beirut.
Teams from the Lebanese Red Cross have transferred 81 cases to two quarantine hotels, closed the Ras al-Naba residential building and declared it a virus cluster.
The head of the epidemiological monitoring program at the Lebanese Ministry of Health stated that “Up until this moment the registered positive cases are from the Bangladeshi nationality in the Ras Al Nabaa building, which amounted to 68, but because of the overpopulation and the excessive mingling due to the large number within the same apartment, we decided to separate between positive cases and negative cases to ensure no further infections.”
“81 negative cases were transferred to two hotels in Beirut, where the Red Cross teams transported them in accordance with special conditions and procedures, while the confirmed cases have remained in the isolated building for a week now”, he added.
Press reports have explained that the overcrowding of foreign workers has become a threat to them and the general Lebanese public, and that the situation requires an urgent plan to inspect all housing units that house foreign workers and alleviate the situation of overcrowding by providing them with temporary housing.
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