Protest organizations have found new ways to show their solidarity for migrants and refugees in times of coronavirus. Demonstrations have been largely banned because of the risk of infringing the distance required between people. Nevertheless, a call to action went ahead on Sunday.
One of Malta's largest migrant camps, Hal Far, was placed under quarantine on Sunday after eight migrants tested positive for the novel coronavirus over the last few days.
The UN refugee agency is warning that the humanitarian crisis in Libya is becoming even worse. Fighting has increased and Libya's healthcare system is ill-prepared to handle a coronavirus outbreak. At least one person in Libya has died of Covid-19 so far.
In Calais a vast operation has been announced to shelter migrants on a voluntary basis in a bid to combat the spread of the coronavirus. But many migrants hoping to reach England fear being trapped in uncertain conditions far from the city.
Belgian migrant aid associations have raised the alarm over a lack of government measures to protect migrants from an outbreak of the coronavirus. The groups also say that migrants' rights are being violated.
The Portuguese government has said that all migrants and asylum seekers currently living in the country are to be treated as permanent residents during the Covid-19 pandemic. To access health care, welfare benefits, banks and other services, they only need an ongoing residency request.
Dozens of Italian associations have published a joint statement urging the government to adopt measures to protect migrants, asylum seekers, and the homeless during the Covid-19 emergency.
As the lockdown continues across the UK, charities and organizations that help migrants are feeling the pinch. InfoMigrants caught up with one of them, which has been forced to close down its cookery lessons.
52 charities signed an open letter to council leaders all over England to demand "urgent steps […] to protect and support vulnerable migrants" during the Covid-19 pandemic. Hundreds of thousands of migrants could be at risk of starvation, they say, as support networks are suspended during the lockdown.
The Italian interior ministry has said that pushbacks of migrants at the French border have been "in sharp decline in recent days." This comes after the mayor of an Italian border town claimed that French officers were bringing migrants back to the Italian border, despite the coronavirus emergency.
A report by the organization Doctors for Human Rights has found that 85% of migrants and refugees who reached Italy from Libya had been subjected to torture in the African country.
Due to the nationwide lockdown in France, some administrative services are suspended and some exceptional measures have been put in place. InfoMigrants takes a look at services dealing with the rights of foreigners.