Dec 30, 2020 12:29 PM EDT
As journalists are restricted from entering the camp, photography students provide a glimpse into what quarantine looks like in the world’s largest Syrian refugee camp.
When Wala’ Zain Al Abedeen first heard of the coronavirus, she didn’t think it was dangerous. But as more news came to the Za’atari Refugee Camp, where the 17-year-old student lives with her family, “the more dangerous we understood it to be.”
“We all got stressed. There was a lot of anxiety.”
Since March 21, Za’atari, the world’s largest Syrian refugee camp, has been under strict lockdown. While the majority of the globe has been under various stages of lockdown as governments attempt to stem the spread of the virus, the enforced isolation is particularly constricting within the confines of a refugee camp. As of Dec. 27, 831 positive COVID-19 cases and four deaths have been confirmed in Za’atari, out of their total estimated populatio