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NAIROBI – Ethiopia has again delayed its national election after some opposition parties said they wouldn’t take part and as conflict in the country’s Tigray region means no vote is being held there.

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Migrant farm worker airport COVID-19 vaccine pilot starts Saturday in Toronto

COVID-19 vaccines to migrant farm workers arriving at Toronto’s international airport through a pilot project today.The government says the pilot will offer shots to 200 workers arriving on a flight from Mexico.Officials from the ministries of health and agriculture, health-care practitioners and representatives from the Mexican Consulate will be at Pearson International Airport to meet the group, offering doses after the workers pass through customs.

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Migrant farm worker COVID-19 vaccine pilot project to occur at Toronto Pearson airport on weekend

COVID-19 vaccines to migrant farm workers arriving at Toronto’s international airport through a pilot project this weekend, The Canadian Press has learned.A spokesman for the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs says the pilot will run early Saturday morning, offering shots to 200 workers arriving on a flight from Mexico.Officials from the ministries of health and agriculture, health-care practitioners and representatives from the Mexican consulate will be at Pearson International Airport to meet the group, offering doses after the workers pass through customs.The arriving workers will be offered doses of the Moderna vaccine, which will be administered in a screened-off area after they take a mandatory COVID-19 test upon

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Advocates call for accessible COVID-19 vaccine plan for migrant farm workers in Ontario

COVID-19 vaccines.A recent letter from a group of medical experts and community service providers outlined some of the issues raised by temporary workers involved in early vaccination efforts, including both lack of notice and opportunities to discuss the process with health professionals.Some workers did not receive a consent form, the letter said, and others were told their decision about receiving a COVID-19 vaccine could affect their future employment.“The power imbalance between employers and migrant workers in Ontario agriculture presents unique challenges to obtaining informed consent,” the group said.

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Lockdown fear: Migrants leaving Gujarat amid COVID-19 surge

AHMEDABAD : Fearing another lockdown in the wake of a sudden spike in COVID-19 cases in Gujarat, migrant workers and their families have started leaving Surat and Ahmedabad, two of the state's most severely affected cities.However, government officials on Thursday claimed the number of those leaving was very low and people cannot be stopped from moving from one place to another."There are no formal reports which suggest that a large number of migrants are leaving.

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Migrant families freed without court notice or any paperwork

MISSION, Texas – Overwhelmed and underprepared, U.S. authorities are releasing migrant families on the Mexican border without notices to appear in immigration court or sometimes without any paperwork at all — a time-saving move that has left migrants confused.

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Coronavirus: Ontario government considering vaccinating migrant farm workers on arrival

migrant farm workers vaccinated against COVID-19 as soon as they arrive and is willing to take on the task if Ottawa doesn’t, a top provincial health official said Thursday.Dr. Barbara Yaffe, Ontario’s associate medical officer of health, said the province is in talks with the federal government to have the temporary foreign workers given a vaccine “when they come in, optimally at the airport.”“We’re working with the federal government on this, hopefully they will be OK to do it,” Yaffe told reporters.

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Advocates call for COVID-19 vaccination access for migrant and undocumented workers

COVID-19 vaccines.The Migrant Rights Network is calling on all levels of governments to guarantee that access.The group is expected to make the call in a news conference today along with doctors and labour leaders.

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Desperation grows in battered Honduras, fueling migration

SAN PEDRO SULA – Nory Yamileth Hernández and her three teenage children have been living in a battered tent under a bridge on the outskirts of San Pedro Sula since Hurricane Eta flooded their home in November.

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Migrant caravan on the move in Honduras in uncertain times

SAN PEDRO SULA – Honduran migrants began walking toward the Guatemalan border before dawn Friday, driven by deepening poverty and the hope of a warmer reception if they can reach the United States border.They quickly dispersed along the heavily-trafficked highway to the border town of Agua Caliente, but estimates of their number ranged from 2,000 to more than twice that. Around 4 a.m., young men and entire families carrying sleeping children set out.

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Cat, kitten adoptions surge amid COVID-19 pandemic

Casca, which has seen a surge in demand for adoptions this year.“Lots of people want to adopt,” said Casca spokesperson Louise Bigras. “Lots of people are lonely, lots of people figure that if they have time at home, that they can house train their new kitty.”Casca has been around for more than 20 years.

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'Counterfeit clothes shop' in Strangeways with 'no Covid safety measures' shut down following raid - two men have been arrested on suspicion of immigration offences

direct to your inboxA Strangeways shop council bosses say flogs 'counterfeit clothes' has been shutdown.Town hall chiefs say it was 'found trading illegally in a premises that lacked any Covid-19 safety measures'.Police, trading standards and Home Office officials raided the Bury New Road shop on December 3, Manchester council said in a statement.After cutting open security shutters, inside, officials found two staff and six customers.None of whom were wearing masks, the council said.There was no hand sanitiser and the shop was said to be cramped with inadequate ventilation. Two staff members were arrested on suspicion of immigration offences.A Manchester council spokesperson said the likelihood of Covid transmission inside the shop was

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Mint Lite | India growth forecast, tracing covid, Apple, migrant crisis & others

The detectives tracing covidAn indigenously developed testing kit for coronavirus disease based on the gene-editing technology CRISPR—called Feluda—was launched in Delhi on Thursday by the Tata group. This is a paper-strip kit and is likely to be cheaper than current and popular RT-PCR test.

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Panel to submit report on covid impact on migrants in Parliament

labourers, the poor, and migrants in the winter session of Parliament.The committee is also expected to expand its scope and look at the impact of covid-19 on child labour in the country. Some of the members are of the view that the challenge has increased to alarming proportions, making it important to ascertain whether or not the Union and state governments are prepared to deal with the situation.“The impact of covid-19 on migrant labour will continue and the panel expects to submit a detailed report in the winter session.

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Gujarat: Migrant workers' employers asked to follow covid-19 norms

SURAT : As migrant labourers have started returning to Surat in Gujarat, the city civic body has asked their employers to follow the state labour department's guidelines for their mandatory COVID-19 testing and quarantine or else face action.As per the guidelines, any migrant labourer showing coronavirus symptoms will have to be mandatorily quarantined for seven days before joining work, the Surat Municipal Corporation said on Monday.Also, all migrant labourers returning to Surat will have to undergo antibody tests for COVID-19.

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Coronavirus: The migrant worker crisis on Canadian farms

Between fatal COVID-19 outbreaks and allegations of food insecurity as well as cramped living conditions, advocates say there is a national emergency for migrant farm workers in Canada. Jasmine Pazzano explains.

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Immigrant calls on local Hispanic community to participate as he fills out Census for first time

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – Every 10 years, the U.S. Census Bureau collects the number of people who live in this country but participation in some communities, like the Hispanic community, falls behind when it comes to filling out the Census.“I don’t think we’re any different than most of the rest of the country,” said Jackie Colón, the Southeast director for NALEO Educational Fund.

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African migrants in Yemen blamed for coronavirus, stranded without food: UN

Hundreds beaten, tortured in Yemen’s secret prisons: human rights group “For nearly six years, Yemen has been an extremely unsafe place to be a migrant,” Paul Dillon, spokesman for the International Organization for Migration told reporters in Geneva. “COVID-19 has made this situation worse; migrants are scapegoated as carriers of the virus and as a result, suffer exclusion and violence.”Last year, over 138,000 migrants desperate to find jobs as housekeepers, servants and construction workers in Saudi Arabia embarked on the arduous journey from the Horn of Africa to Yemen, according to IOM.

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Migrant worker at Norfolk County, Ont., farm dies due to coronavirus

migrant worker employed at a farm in Norfolk County, Ont., has died due to the novel coronavirus, the Haldimand-Norfolk Health Unit said Sunday.No information regarding the deceased is released, except that he was a male.The health unit first became aware of an outbreak at the farm towards the end of May.On May 31, the mayor of Norfolk County said 120 workers at the farm, owned by Scotlynn Group, had tested positive for COVID-19, with seven of them having been admitted to hospital.

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Govt looking to place 300,000 migrants in rural industries

₹50,000 crore from among the outlays for 25 existing welfare schemes to address the plight of migrant workers who, threatened with job losses amid the coronavirus pandemic, have returned to their native villages from the cities.As per the official communication, a copy of which was reviewed by Mint, 150,000 migrants will be offered short-term skills, another 150,000 will receive certification of their skills through a programme - Recognition of Prior Learning."We are already aware that the covid-19 has created an unprecedented social and economic disruption leading to large scale reverse migration across the country.

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International students feeling helpless as COVID-19 leaves semester hanging

COVID-19 pandemic.“In three months, I will have to find another place because my family said they cannot support me anymore because their savings is also running out,” Simsek told Global News.The 39-year-old is currently living in student residence while studying to become a career development practitioner but is now looking for more affordable housing. Simsek is one of many international students worried about lack of income, increasing tuition or that they could run out of time to complete their studies before their visas expire.

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Premier Doug Ford pleads with Ontario’s ‘scared’ migrant workers to get tested for coronavirus

COVID-19, acknowledging that the current testing strategy has captured only a small slice of the migrant population in a region with several outbreaks.Ford made the comments one day after a local hospital in Windsor-Essex – one of only three regions not allowed to enter Stage 2 of reopening this week – announced it was closing a centre designed to test the workers.Only 724 workers – out of the region’s 8,000 temporary foreign workers – have been tested since the centre was opened on June 9.Ford said he would do “anything” to help test more workers and stop the spread of the virus on farms. Not working with the government, he said, isn’t fair to the rest of the region.

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1,163 migrant workers symptomatic for COVID-19 in state: UP health secretary

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Coronavirus: Number of cases among migrant workers rises to 21 at St. Thomas-area farm

The number of confirmed cases among migrant workers at a St. Thomas-area greenhouse operation has risen to 21, local health officials say.

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Gadkari asks industries to contact home states to bring back migrant workers

NEW DELHI: Industries should reach out to the home state of migrants and district administrations where the plants are based to bring back workers, MSME and transport minister Nitin Gadkari on Monday said, adding industries have resumed operation with limited capacity.

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How a collective of lawyers is sending migrant workers home in lockdown

An alumnus of National Law School of India University (NLSIU) tells Lounge how former students of the institute helped airlift nearly 370 migrant workers back home

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NLSIU alumni plans second flight for migrants to Jharkhand on Sunday

The relief efforts of National Law School of India University (NLSIU) alumni have inspired Godrej and parents of Ascend International School to sponsor additional flights for migrants

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Opening up public transport triggers mass intra-state migrant movement, raising fears of virus spread

The easing of travel restrictions by MHA and followed up by some states has opened the floodgates for migrant workers to rush back to their hometowns but also posing a threat of contaminating regions that have so far remained free from covid-19

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Covid-19: 50 migrants who returned from Maharashtra test positive in an UP dist

Gorakhpur: Fifty migrant labourers tested positive for Covid-19 in Basti on Tuesday, taking the total number of coronavirus cases in the district to 104, a senior official said.

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Why India’s migrants deserve a better deal

BRIGHTON/LONDON : Images of stranded migrants and their long arduous journeys back home will remain seared in our collective memories of the covid-19 pandemic in India. According to the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE), an estimated 122 million people lost their jobs in April alone and three-quarters of these were small traders and wage labourers.

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Cash handout to migrant workers is difficult without database: Expenditure secy

T.V. Somanathan gives the rationale behind the mega economic stimulus package announced by FM over five days

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Priyanka Gandhi writes to UP CM seeking nod to run 1,000 buses for migrants workers

Priyanka Gandhi says the entire cost of travel through the buses from Ghazipur and Noida borders will be borne by the Congress

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SC stays Orissa HC order allowing only COVID-19 negative migrants to return in the state

NEW DELHI : The Supreme Court on Friday stayed the Orissa High Court order that held that only those migrants who tested negative for Covid-19 would be allowed back in the state.

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Covid crisis: Maharashtra may soon start more trains for migrant workers

MUMBAI : Maharashtra may soon start more trains to enable the stranded migrant laborers in the state return home. “The state government is in constant touch with the Center to release as many trains as possible for migrant workers and laborers and arrangements will be made for the return of all of them soon," said Maharashtra Chief minister Uddhav Thackarey’s office on Friday.

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3.75 lakh migrant workers have left from Gujarat so far: Official

AHMEDABAD : Nearly 3.75 lakh migrant workers have so far left from Gujarat for their native places in trains, buses and other vehicles since the lockdown restrictions were eased last week, a senior official said on Wednesday.

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Telangana to run 40 trains a day for one week from today to send back migrant workers

The decision came at a time when 1,500 migrant workers had hit the Hyderabad roads on Monday demanding to be sent back to their native places

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The virtual dinner parties helping migrant women in Manchester cook and practise their English together

A community service aimed at bringing migrant women together through a love of food has had to shift the way it operates in the face of the coronavirus crisis.

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New immigrant volunteers at Regina YWCA to protect vulnerable staff amid COVID-19

WATCH: YWCA Regina is dealing with staff shortages caused by workers staying home. But one new immigrant to Canada has stepped in on a volunteer basis to help deliver services to some of the city’s most vulnerable residents.

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‘Death is so real’: Immigrant group says meat workers afraid after COVID-19 plant closure

An organization that works with immigrants says the temporary closure of a large slaughterhouse in southern Alberta has left many among its largely Filipino workforce fearful for the future.

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Canada is releasing immigration detainees at ‘unprecedented’ rates over COVID-19 fears

The number of immigration detainees held in provincial jails and immigration holding centres across Canada has dropped by more than half since COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic, according to data provided to Global News.

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Podcast: Ep. 19 The Model, The Migrants and The Money

Listen here: Colm Ó Mongáin is joined by Science Editor George

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H-1B visa card holders exempted from Trump's immigration ban

NEW YORK : US President Donald Trump has issued an executive order banning many categories of immigration to the US for 60 days but it does not apply to H-1B professional visa-holders.

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Coronavirus outbreak: Singapore’s migrant COVID-19 cases mount

As Singapore wins global plaudits for its handling of the novel coronavirus outbreak, the disease has spread rapidly within its large migrant worker community, highlighting what rights groups say is a weak link in the city state’s containment efforts.

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Detained immigrants plead for masks, protection from virus

HOUSTON – Elsy was on the phone in an immigration detention center when guards showed up with face masks and forms to sign.

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Immigration workers say they are forced to move asylum seekers without PPE - despite deportation flights being grounded

Immigration staff are being put at risk by forced removals of asylum seekers – when almost all deportation flights are grounded.

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Labour shortage due to reverse migration to hit real estate hard

The reverse migration of workers since the government announced the lockdown to contain the covid-19 outbreak is a serious issue for labour-intensive sectors such as real estate. Also, with basic support from the government for three months, many interstate migrants may not return to work anytime soon. This may be bad news for homebuyers as shortage of labour can delay the completion of under-construction projects. Ashwini Kumar Sharma asks experts how much delay this can cause and how covid-19’s impact on the economy and personal wealth of buyers will affect the sector, especially the residential segment

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‘Disaster’ possible if COVID-19 protections not given to migrant workers: advocates

The federal and provincial governments are facing a “potential disaster” if more protections and social-distancing guidelines aren’t extended to migrant agricultural workers, advocates say.

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Why is Mumbai seeing less exodus of its migrant workforce?

MUMBAI: The maximum city has provided a counter-point to the tragic image of thousands of migrant workers trudging from cities to their villages and towns as the covid-19 forced lockdowns play havoc with jobs, incomes, and livelihoods.

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