The IOM is offering an information service for migrants who may be particularly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom. Be that because their jobs have disappeared, they can't pay their rent or they find themselves homeless or ill. The information service is currently available in eight languages with one more coming soon.
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has accused Greek authorities of using the coronavirus as a pretext to continue a lockdown on migrant camps. The government in Athens has extended the lockdown until July 5, while lifting restrictions across the country.
The UN refugee agency has warned that thousands of refugees and internally displaced people in the Democratic Republic of Congo are at risk due to a lack of funds needed to support them amid conflict and the COVID-19 pandemic.
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.
UNICEF and WHO have warned that over 250,000 babies are at risk in Libya because there's not enough vaccines available. They are worried that this could lead to measles and polio outbreaks. Refugee, migrant and displaced children in particular lack access to vaccines.
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.
The German government is poised to approve better protections for workers in the meat industry. The squalid living quarters and unsafe working conditions aren't new, but COVID-19 has prompted politicians to finally act.
Refugee rights organizations in Germany say people in asylum seeker accommodation centers are in grave danger from coronavirus and have called for them to be shut down. Migrants who were quarantined in one center are being made to wear wristbands in public.
Just as lockdown measures are lifting, more than 200 employees at a slaughterhouse in western Germany have contracted COVID-19. DW spoke to workers living in dilapidated, crowded conditions.
The coronavirus pandemic is a cause for concern for people with illnesses that can make them more vulnerable, such as HIV and AIDS. It is especially worrying for HIV-positive migrants who are undocumented or who cannot access treatment.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has warned about the potential devastating consequences of a COVID-19 outbreak on millions of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in northeastern Nigeria.
Portgual will test 500 asylum seekers for the novel coronavirus and transfer some into flats and hotels left empty by tourists. The decicion comes after 138 coronavirus cases were reported at a Lisbon shelter last week.