IIEA
Mitigating the Threat of COVID-19 to Refugees and Migrants
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THE LANCET
Targeting COVID-19 Intervention to Migrants in Humanitarian Settings
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
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IOM STORYTELLER
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UN NEWS
UN Prepares for Potentially Devastating COVID-19 Outbreak in Conflict-Ravaged Northeast Nigeria
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- Al Jazeera, The New York Times, The National – Afghanistan has launched inquiry into claims migrant workers were drowned by Iranian border guards.
- The Guardian, Channel News Asia, BBC, Al Jazeera – Malaysian authorities have detained hundreds of undocumented migrants, including Rohingya refugees, as part of efforts to contain coronavirus, officials say.
- Thomson Reuters Foundation – Ethiopian migrants sent home from Middle Eastern and African countries are quarantined in universities, straining the country's response to COVID-19.
- VOA – IOM helped repatriate 11 Ethiopians who escaped death after having been locked inside a smuggler’s truck last March in Mozambique.
- MENAFN – Yazidis displaced in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq are particularly vulnerable to COVID-19 as they face a mental health crisis the pandemic may exacerbate.
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“There has always been the fear that migrants are purveyors of disease but the evidence does not bear this out at all.”
Maureen Achieng
IOM Chief of Mission in Ethiopia
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