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Migrant workers making PPE for firms supplying the NHS during the coronavirus pandemic are earning as little as £1.08 an hour in cramped factories, an investigation has found. Staff employed by Top Glove in Malaysia, the world’s largest manufacturer of medical gloves, have told Channel 4 News for a special report, broadcast tonight, of the level … Read more
Lockdown in the Calais camps: British volunteer, 18, reveals ‘hard battle’ to maintain social distancing and hygeine and says the crisis is making the already ‘terrible’ refugee crisis worse as food and donations run out Tia, 18, is one of few volunteers who has stayed working in Calais’ migrant camps Revealed the volunteering team are … Read more
Nigel Farage has defended travelling 100 miles from his home in Kent to film footage about UK migrant crossings. The Brexit Party leader was filmed at Pett Level, a beach in east Sussex, claiming it was the ‘favoured location’ for migrants to land in the UK. He was later also videoed in Hastings where he interviewed … Read more
British ‘ISIS rapper’ Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary snuck into Spain by boat after posing as an undocumented migrant, it was claimed last night. Spanish state broadcaster TVE said the jihadi reached the city of Almeria in a patera, the wooden boats Africans traditionally use to reach Europe from as far afield as Senegal. It said Bary … Read more
A doctor who lost a friend and fellow healthcare professional to coronavirus has called for the UK to recognise the contribution of migrant workers after the pandemic. This comes after Filipino NHS workers have died after contracting coronavirus, including Sister Leilani Dayrit. Mr Salah Hammouche is a former colleague of Ms Dayrit and suggested that … Read more
Easter migrant boom: 72 refugees detained in one day as dinghies moor up on Kent beaches with masked men and women on board Four separate boats containing 72 migrants were intercepted off the south coast They said they were from Iraq, Iran and Syria and were sent for medical exams They were transferred to immigration … Read more
Around 1,000 migrants have been placed under quarantine in a camp in Malta after eight asylum seekers were diagnosed with coronavirus. It comes after a second Greek migrant camp housing 1,700 people was placed under lockdown when an asylum seeker was diagnosed with the killer bug. Refugees in the Hal Far Open Centre for Migrants … Read more
First coronavirus case in Greek migrant camps as asylum seeker tests positive after giving birth at a hospital in Athens The woman tested positive after going to hospital from a camp at Ritsona Another woman living with the new mother has tested negative for coronavirus Ten hospital staff have been quarantined and three people are … Read more
Indian migrant workers have been sprayed with disinfectant after returning to their home state on a crowded bus as people to adapt to the second week of a hastily-announced nationwide lockdown. Families returning to Uttar Pradesh in the country’s north from New Delhi were filmed being sprayed as an official told them: ‘Close your eyes … Read more
Greece is at risk of coronavirus deaths spiking due to migrant camps where 42,000 people are packed into facilities designed for 6,000, making social distancing impossible Greek camps hold 42,000 migrants in facilities built for just 6,000 people Juan Fernando Lopez Aguilar warns EU take ‘immediate action’ to avoid spread French police begin moving migrants from … Read more