Photos: The world's displaced brace for coronavirus

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Asylum seekers, refugees and migrants around the world prepare for the pandemic with limited access to healthcare, sanitation and ability to social distance. | Above: A doctor checks the blood pressure of a Yazidi displaced woman, following the coronavirus outbreak, at medical Center in the Sharya camp in Duhok, Iraq. Image Credit: REUTERS

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A health worker tests an internally displaced Syrian man as part of security measures to avoid coronavirus, in Azaz, Syria Image Credit: REUTERS

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A displaced girl wears a face mask as she takes part in an event organized by Violet Organization, in an effort to spread awareness and encourage safety amid coronavirus concerns, at a camp in the town of Maarat Masrin in northern Idlib, Syria Image Credit: REUTERS

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Internally displaced families receive food items from Nigeria's Victims Support Fund, as the authorities struggle to contain coronavirus in Abuja, Nigeria Image Credit: REUTERS

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Rohingya refugees wearing protective masks keep a social distance while waiting to receive goods from volunteers, during the movement control order in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Image Credit: REUTERS

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A Somali woman uses ash and soil to wash her hands outside her makeshift shelter at the Shabelow camp for the internally displaced persons in Mogadishu, Somalia Image Credit: REUTERS

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Workers from Bangladesh, India and China look out of their balconies during food distribution at Punggol S-11 workers' dormitory, which was turned into an isolation facility after a cluster of coronavirus cases, in Singapore Image Credit: REUTERS

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A family of migrants is seen outside a tent at a migrant encampment in Matamoros, Mexico Image Credit: REUTERS

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Police officers in protective suits detain a migrant who is suspected of having coronavirus at the infection clinic in Belgrade, Serbia Image Credit: REUTERS

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A Syrian refugee woman puts a face mask on a boy as a precaution against the spread of coronavirus, in al-Wazzani area, in southern Lebanon Image Credit: REUTERS

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Venezuelan boys watch television in a migrant shelter, after Peru's government suspended movement and declared a curfew in Lima, Peru Image Credit: REUTERS

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A police officer in a protection suit motions to a rescued migrant disembarking a military vessel that arrived in Senglea in Valletta's Grand Harbour in Malta Image Credit: REUTERS

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A worker sanitizes the exterior of a house in al-Fari'ah refugee camp as part of a campaign conducted by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) and the Popular Committee in the Israeli-occupied West Bank Image Credit: REUTERS

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A migrant crosses a bridge in a makeshift camp for refugees and migrants next to the Moria camp on the island of Lesbos, Greece Image Credit: REUTERS

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Members of the Syrian Civil defence sanitize the Bab Al-Nour internally displaced persons camp in Azaz, Syria Image Credit: REUTERS

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An unaccompanied child from an overcrowded migrant camp who will be transferred to either Germany or Luxembourg, wears a protective face mask as he boards a bus at the port of Piraeus, Greec Image Credit: REUTERS

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Vehicles carrying belongings of internally displaced Syrians drive back to their homes amid fears of an outbreak in crowded camps, in Dayr Ballut, Syria Image Credit: REUTERS

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Children of migrant workers wear protective masks inside a sports complex turned into a shelter, during a nationwide lockdown in New Delhi, India Image Credit: REUTERS

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A migrant looks out of a cabin window inside the Hal Far Open Centre for Migrants, after the camp, which has around 1,000 residents, was put into lockdown due to a cluster of coronavirus cases found among the residents, in Hal Far, Malta Image Credit: REUTERS

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Migrants stand on a rooftop as they demand medical attention at a foreign internment center in Madrid, Spain Image Credit: REUTERS

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