coronavirus

• Italy

The Covid-19 pandemic has further aggravated the global problem of poverty and malnutrition, Italian Premier Mario Draghi has said. The number of people without food security has increased by at least 130 million, bringing the total number to 800 million.

• Italy

The Roman chapter of Catholic charity Caritas has reported "a disproportionate impact on the health of immigrants" of the Covid pandemic in Italy, denouncing a risk of "invisibility" regarding the vaccination campaign.

• Italy

According to a report by the Italian statistics bureau ISTAT, the pandemic caused a decrease in migration to Italy in 2020.

• Lebanon
• Syria
• Turkey

The vaccination campaign is underway in Turkey, but migrants face an especially large number of challenges on the road to immunization. The government has been keeping a low profile on the issue.

• Italy

In southern Sicily, NGOs have organizated a COVID-19 vaccination campaign that is open to all, including undocumented migrant farmworkers. They have set up centers in the towns of Ragusa and Vittoria.

• France

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) aims to get between 6,000 to 10,000 people vaccinated before the end of September. This week, the NGO launched a vaccination campaign against COVID-19 in the Île-de-France region for the homeless and migrants.

• Italy

Foreigners without residency papers in the Italian region of Campania can now book vaccination appointments. According to the local health department in Caserta, there are between 25,000 and 35,000 undocumented foreigners to vaccinate.

• Italy

About 40 migrants received coronavirus vaccines in Palermo, southern Italy, on Tuesday. This was part of the regional government's effort to make the coronavirus immunization campaign more inclusive.

• Spain
• Norway
• Italy

According to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), COVID-19 hit migrants the worst in Europe and this is the category that is now also the least vaccinated. Migrants especially in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden had higher rates of infection than the rest of the population, while in Italy and Spain they show a higher likelihood of needing to be hospitalized.

• Greece

A large-scale COVID vaccination drive for asylum seekers has started on three Greek Aegean Islands. In Europe, some migrant populations are prone to "low vaccine uptake," according to a new study.

• Djibouti
• Somalia
• Ethiopia

Restrictions to curb the spread of COVID-19 impacted more than 300,000 people in East Africa and the Horn of Africa last year, a new report by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) found. Meanwhile, the number of migrant crossing to Yemen dramatically decreased in 2020.

• Germany

Migrant children and teenagers in Germany are disproportionately affected by the country's longer than average lockdowns, experts say. They warn that the widening education gap between migrant pupils and their native peers could derail efforts to integrate the hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers in Germany.