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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Miranda Bryant

Concern for health of Ukrainians aboard Scotland’s ‘floating refugee camps’

Children playing aboard the MS Victoria docked at Leith.
Children playing aboard the MS Victoria docked at Leith. Photograph: Peter Summers/Getty Images

The physical and mental health of Ukrainian refugees living on ships in Glasgow and Edinburgh – branded “floating refugee camps” – are being put in danger, amid reports of residents being quarantined with scarlet fever.

A man told the Observer that he and his son had spent a week inside a cabin on board MS Ambition earlier this month after the young child was diagnosed with the highly contagious bacterial infection.

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