Detained migrant workers face new Covid-19 risk, UN warns


An Immigration Department truck loaded with migrant workers leaves the Masjid India area under police escort after the authorities raided the district. – The Malaysian Insight pic by Hasnoor Hussain, May 2, 2020.

THE mass arrests of undocumented migrants yesterday at locations in the capital under enhanced movement control order (EMCO) will now push others into hiding and increase the risk of new Covid-19 infections, the United Nations office in Malaysia said.

The statement was echoed by 62 civil society organisations, many of them working with marginalised groups including refugees, in a statement today.


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