BEIRUT: Hundreds of thousands of Palestinian and Syrian refugees living in overcrowded and rundown camps in Lebanon are bracing for the novel coronavirus as aid groups mobilize to help.

Lebanon is home to tens of thousands of Palestinians in camps that over the decades have become bustling neighborhoods and to at least 1.5 million Syrians who have fled the war next door.

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