Italian agriculture minister Teresa Bellanova has expressed concern for the security of foreign seasonal workers who travel from "red areas" affected by the coronavirus pandemic to Italy via so-called green corridors allowing them to fly in to help pick the country's ripening crops.
A foreign woman will receive compensation from the municipal administration of Naples after being denied a food-shopping bonus amid to the economic emergency caused by the coronavirus pandemic. A court in Naples ruled that the measure can't exclude foreigners.
Two centers for asylum seekers in Mainz and Regensburg have reported scores of new COVID-19 cases -- even though the number of new infections in Germany overall has decreased. Researchers warn that the virus can spread rapidly in asylum centers.
Support structures for gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender refugees often rely on in-person meetings. That’s one of the reasons why measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 have hit queer refugees particularly hard. We spoke to LGBT+ refugee advocates in Germany about the situation, and where people can still get help.
Italian authorities and healthcare providers have distributed 1,200 kits with facemasks, disinfectant gels and detergents to migrants living near the Italian city of Foggia.
The government in Cyprus has announced it will deport 17 migrants as soon as international flights allow. The migrants, whose nationalities and alleged crimes have not been disclosed, are being held in a detention center on the island.
The Lazio regional administrative court (TAR) has rejected a request to suspend the decree with which the government established that Italian ports cannot be considered "places of safety" following the coronavirus emergency. Judges set a hearing on the matter for July.
A UK government scheme to grant permanent residency to relatives of foreign nationals who died from COVID-19 while working for the National Health Service (NHS) has been expanded to also include family members of low-paid NHS workers. Their earlier exclusion from the scheme had attracted widespread criticism.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) have released a joint statement, calling on Malta and other EU states to find a way to bring some 160 migrants on board two private vessels on the Mediterranean to safety.
The UN Refugee Agency, humanitarian agencies and the Kenyan government are strengthening their COVID-19 response after two cases were reported in the Daddab refugee camps in Kenya, UNHCR said in a statement published on May 20.
British authorities say they have recorded a surge in attempted boat crossings in the English Channel this year - a trend that appears to be reinforced by coronavirus travel restrictions forcing migrants on boats rather than trucks. On Wednesday, a Sky News reporter witnessed the rescue of around 65 migrants traveling to UK shores on tiny dinghies. Meanwhile, human rights lawyers are concerned that migrants are being returned from the UK to France illegally.
A Tunisian man drowned after throwing himself off a COVID-19 quarantine ship at Porto Empedocle in southern Italy. NGOs have criticized the fact that rescued migrants are quarantined on ships due to the coronavirus pandemic.