PARIS - Members of China's Uighur minority living in exile are sounding the alarm over the risk of the coronavirus spreading in camps inside the country, where NGOs say hundreds of thousands of people have been rounded up by Beijing.
Over 1,100 people have died in China due to the coronavirus epidemic although most of the deaths and infections have been in the central Hubei province, whose capital, Wuhan, is the epicentre of the outbreak. China has rounded up an estimated one million Uighurs and other mostly Muslim ethnic minorities in internment camps, NGOs and experts say, and little is known about the conditions inside them."People are starting to panic. Our families are there, dealing with the camps and the virus, and we do not know if they have enough to eat or if they have masks," said Dilnur Reyhan, a French sociologist of Uighur origin.
"We must not wait until news of hundreds of coronavirus related deaths in the camps before we react," the petition says. The World Uyghur Congress , one of several groups representing Uighurs outside China, said it was very concerned"that if measures are not taken to further limit the spread of this virus, it could rapidly infect large numbers of people" in Xinjiang.
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