"An elderly Rohingya refugee has become the first person to die from the novel coronavirus in the camps in southern Bangladesh, officials said. The man, aged 71, died on May 31 while undergoing treatment at the camp's isolation centre, said Bimal Chakma, a senior official of the Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commission, on Tuesday. More: Coronavirus: In dense Bangladesh, social distancing a tough task Coronavirus pandemic threatens Bangladesh garment industry Bangladesh scientists create $3 kit. Can it help detect COVID-19? "Today we got the confirmation that he tested positive for COVID-19," he said, referring to the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. The Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh are members of a mostly Muslim minority who fled a brutal military crackdown in Myanmar in 2017. More than a million of them live in camps in Cox's Bazar, a coastal district in southeast Bangladesh. The death was in the Kutupalong shelter - the biggest refugee camp in the world - which alone is home to roughly 600,000 people..."