Policy makers must include migrant camps in their national plans The world has watched the growing global health crisis caused by covid-19 with alarm, fear, and desperation. One after another, governments, healthcare systems, and individuals are adopting increasingly restrictive measures, with “social distancing” now the norm in most countries. Yet for many people, and especially migrants who have been displaced from their homes, this is not possible. Several tens of thousands of people are living in migrant camps around the Mediterranean. These are often run well beyond capacity and in suboptimal conditions, including lack of basic infrastructure or hygiene, making them a high risk environment for coronavirus spread. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has called on the Greek government to immediately evacuate its camps, particularly older people and those with chronic diseases, so far without response.1 People held in immigration detention centres are also affected. Demands from 10 refugee and detention charities for UK detainees to be released on public health grounds have been ignored.2 And there are thousands of migrants forcibly detained along the north African coast, intercepted en route to Europe, living in appalling conditions and lacking food, …

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欧洲的移民收容政策威胁对covid-19的反应。

决策者必须在其国家计划中包括移民营地。全世界都在警觉，恐惧和绝望地注视着由covid-19引发的日益严重的全球健康危机。各国政府，医疗保健系统和个人相继采用越来越严格的措施，而“社会疏离”现在已成为大多数国家的规范。但是，对于许多人，尤其是那些已从家中流离失所的移民来说，这是不可能的。成千上万的人住在地中海周围的移民集中营中。这些病毒通常在能力不足和条件欠佳的条件下运行，包括缺乏基本的基础设施或卫生条件，使它们成为冠状病毒传播的高风险环境。无国界医生（MSF）呼吁希腊政府立即撤离其营地，到目前为止，特别是老年人和患有慢性病的人没有反应。1被关押在移民拘留中心的人也受到影响。10个难民和拘留所慈善机构要求英国被拘留者以公共卫生为由释放的要求被忽略了。2在北非沿岸有成千上万的移民被强行拘留，在前往欧洲的途中被拦截，生活在可怕的环境中，缺乏食物， …