An-Najah News - Agencies – The first infection with corona virus is recorded in a Palestinian refugee camp in Beqa’ region in the east of Lebanon, according to an international organization.

The Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) announced in a statement on Tuesday night that the infected woman had been transferred from the Galilee camp in Baalbek to the Rafiq Hariri University Hospital in Beirut for treatment, without any details about her age and health status.

The infected woman, according to the statement, is a Palestinian refugee residing in the camp after her displacement from neighboring Syria, which has been experiencing a devastating conflict for nine years.

The organization will cover the costs of treating the infected woman and providing the needed assistance to her family, so she can isolate herself inside the house.

On Wednesday, a team from Rafiq Hariri Hospital will head to the camp for testing to detect the virus. And the official National Media Agency in Lebanon stated that it would include the affected family and those who had contact with it, in addition to taking random samples inside and around the camp for more than 50 people.

The camp, which is located at the southern entrance to Baalbek, houses 2,000 people, according to the latest census of the Lebanese authorities, while the number registered with UNRWA is much more than that.

UNRWA announced earlier this month that a Palestinian refugee was infected with the virus, but that he was not staying in a camp and was isolated inside his home.

The international organizations have previously warned of the danger of the virus outbreak inside Palestinian or Syrian refugee camps, because of the population density inside it, apart from its lack of the simplest services and infrastructure, the difficult living conditions of its residents, and the difficulty in implementing quarantine and social separation measures.