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Guidance for those affected by changes to UK immigration and borders due to coronavirus.Guidance for those affected by changes to UK immigration and borders due to coronavirus.Split the Coronavirus guidance for student and worker sponsors into 2 documents.Revised and restructured.Guidance for staff on the Covid Visa Concession Scheme (CVCS) published.Updated to add Entering the UK and Coronavirus (COVID-19): travellers exempt from UK border rules guidance pages.Added 'Coronavirus (COVID-19) bereavement scheme for family members of NHS and health and social care workers' to the collection.Added coronavirus (COVID-19) guidance: Tier 4 sponsors, migrants and short-term students.First published.

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Some immigrants, hard hit by economic fallout, lose homes

NEW YORK – Sotero Cirilo sleeps in a small blue tent under a train track bridge in Elmhurst, Queens.

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ICE secures temporary housing for migrant families amid surge at the US-Mexico border

WASHINGTON - U.S. immigration officials confirmed to FOX Television Stations that they are providing temporary shelter for some migrant families amid a growing surge at the U.S.-Mexico border."U.S.

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Ontario reports 1,670 new coronavirus cases, province notes an overestimation due to data migration

coronavirus on Friday, bringing the provincial total to 273,660.The province notes Friday’s case count is an overestimation due to a data system migration that began on Monday and has resulted in the fluctuation of daily case numbers all week.“Toronto Public Health is reporting 125 additional cases today that were not fully migrated during the CCM transition, resulting in a slight overestimation of today’s overall case numbers,” a government spokesperson said Friday.

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Ontario reports 745 new coronavirus cases, notes underestimation from data system migration

coronavirus on Tuesday, an underestimation of the day’s count, bringing the provincial total to 270,925.The Ontario government noted that Toronto Public Health migrated all of their data to the provincial data system called CCM and it impacted the daily count.“Most notably, (Toronto Public Health’s) case count is negative following the identification of duplicate cases as well as data corrections to some fields (e.g., long-term care home residents and health care workers), resulting in an underestimation of today’s cases,” a government spokesperson said in an email.The spokesperson also said case counts for other local public health units may be affected by the system outages related to the migration and “as a result, we anticipate

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US won't make immigration arrests at virus vaccination sites

WASHINGTON – The U.S. government says it won’t be making routine immigration enforcement arrests at COVID-19 vaccination sites.

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Winter holidays away from the motherland: Effects on migrants' mental health

every year, to make sure I never miss the opportunity to decorate my Christmas tree with my family.But this year has been different. To avoid putting in unnecessary peril my mother, who has a high risk of developing severe COVID-19 if she contracts the virus, I have decided not to go back this year.Although I consider both Romania and the U.K.

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House panel calls for tracking movement of migrant workers for better relief disbursement

NEW DELHI : A key report by the parliamentary panel on home affairs has put the focus back on the plight of migrant workers and has recommended putting in place a ‘tracking and monitoring mechanism’ for their movement to ensure better relief disbursement.

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Devastating hurricanes to spur more Central American migration

SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras - At a shelter in this northern Honduran city, Lilian Gabriela Santos Sarmiento says back-to-back hurricanes that hit with devastating fury this month have overturned her life. Her home in what was once a pretty neighborhood in nearby La Lima was destroyed by flooding.The 29-year-old woman who never finished middle school had managed to build a life for herself, most recently cleaning COVID-19 wards at a local hospital.

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'We just ran': Ethiopians fleeing war find little relief

UMM RAKOUBA – The baby was born on the run from war. Her first bath was in a puddle.

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Warning of famine, UN releases $100M to seven countries

NAIROBI – The United Nations humanitarian office is releasing $100 million in emergency funding to seven countries at risk of famine in Africa and the Middle East amid conflict and the COVID-19 pandemic, while the humanitarian chief says returning to a world where famines are common would be “obscene."A statement overnight said $80 million of the money will go to Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Congo, Nigeria, South Sudan and Yemen.

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Individual health policies can be migrated to a family floater plan

I am 35 years old and thinking of buying health insurance. I want to know if I get hospitalized for suspected covid-19 and later test negative, will the policy cover hospitalization cost?—Name withheld on requestStandard health plans cover the cost of hospitalization for treatment and exclude the cost of hospitalization for diagnostics.

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Coronavirus: Health unit issues order for farms employing migrant workers in Kawartha Lakes, Haliburton, Northumberland

coronavirus.The order, under Section 22 of Ontario’s Health Protection and Promotion Act, will apply to any farm that employs migrant workers and/or participate in the federal Temporary Foreign Worker or operate any model of seasonal housing accommodations.The order went into effect at noon and will remain in effect until the medical officer of health determines it is no longer required.

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Public health issues order to Waterloo farms that employ migrant workers

coronavirus order to farms in the area that employ migrant workers.Acting medical officer of health Dr. Hsiu-Li Wang says the province’s top doctor asked local public health units to put appropriate measures in place for the areas they govern.

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Migrant farm workers ‘hid’ from coronavirus testing in Windsor-Essex: Doug Ford

COVID-19 outbreak “hid” to avoid getting tested when health officials visited recently, Premier Doug Ford said Thursday, refusing to name the business.Ford said fears among temporary foreign workers that they would not be paid or sent back to their home countries if they tested positive for the virus are hindering efforts to address the outbreak at the farm in the Windsor-Essex region that has seen 191 workers infected with COVID-19.The premier said only three or four workers at the farm co-operated with health officials who showed up to do more testing.“All the workers went and hid,” he said. “That’s why my emphasis to the workers is nothing’s going to happen.

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Confident that migrants will soon return to second home: Gujarat CM

Gujarat has the fourth highest number of covid-19 cases and is second in terms of death. Where did the state go wrong?In my opinion, the covid-19 crisis can only be overcome if we adopt an aggressive testing strategy for symptomatic patients as per ICMR (Indian Council of Medical Research) guidelines and provide them quality healthcare, especially those in critical stage of infection, and those with co-morbid conditions, for a fast-paced recovery.

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Florida migrant towns become coronavirus hot spots in US

IMMOKALEE, Fla. – When much of the world was staying at home to slow the spread of the new coronavirus, Elbin Sales Perez continued to rise at 4:30 a.m. to report to his landscaping job in a rural Florida town.Now, a couple of months later, as state-imposed restrictions are lifted and Floridians begin to venture out, the Guatemalan immigrant is ill and isolated at home with his wife and children in Immokalee, a poverty-stricken town in the throes of one of the sharpest COVID-19 upticks in the state.“We had to work.

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Testing underway after 8 migrant workers at Elgin County farm test positive for coronavirus

Officials with the Middlesex-London Health Unit (MLHU) and Southwestern Public Health (SWPH) say coronavirus testing is underway at a St. Thomas-area farm after at least eight temporary foreign workers tested positive for the virus this week.

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Returnee migrants, their skill mapping could rewire state politics

The first big test of the strategy of states to provide jobs to migrants would be the next elections in Bihar in five months

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From loss of Akshay Tritiya sales, loss of migrant work force to zero revenues India Inc discloses pain points

MUMBAI : After the regulatory rap by Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) over a dozen companies have disclosed the financial impact of covid-19. Majority of the listed companies so far had just been disclosing lockdown and related shut down of operations but financial assessment was missing. Companies such as D-Mart, Trent, Cochin Shipyard, Titan, Leela Hotels have disclosed the challenging times ahead due to the pandemic.

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Migrant crisis: Randeep Surjewala moves SC seeking permission to intervene

NEW DELHI: Congress party's chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala on Wednesday moved the Supreme Court seeking to intervene in the suo motu case on the crisis being faced by migrant workers amid the covid-19 lockdown.

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Asylum seekers confused by Quebec government’s messages on immigration

Refugee claimants and advocates say Quebec Premier François Legault’s promise Monday to consider pushing for residency status for asylum seekers in the province is causing confusion, arguing that his pledge doesn’t go far enough.

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Text message specifying deadline to register adds to panic among migrant workers in Bengaluru, Karnataka

BENGALURU : A text message that gave stranded migrant workers a deadline to register their names to leave Karnataka or be left back caused panic and confusion among this section of people in Bengaluru on Tuesday.

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Centre asks states to distribute free ration to 8 crore migrants within 15 days

New Delhi: As hundreds of migrants continue to travel a long distance in this COVID-19 crisis, Union Food Minister Ram Vilas Paswan on Saturday appealed to state governments to immediately lift food grains and pulses from the godowns and distribute them for free within a fortnight to 8 crore migrants who neither have centre nor state ration card.

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'The glue that holds our economy': Anand Mahindra grieves death of migrant labourers

Mahindra Group chairman Anand Mahindra was deeply disturbed by the death of migrant labourers in an accident in Uttar Pradesh's Auraiya district. Taking to the micro-blogging site Twitter, the industrialist said, "They are the glue that holds our economy together. We made them invisible. All of us in society, especially businesses-large & small-must hang our heads in shame."

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Truck crash kills at least 23 Indian migrant workers laid off by coronavirus lockdown

A truck crammed with migrant labourers trying to reach their distant homes amid a nationwide lockdown crashed in northern India on Saturday, killing at least 23 and injuring 35.

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As doubling rate improves, returning migrants pose fresh challenge

India’s case fatality rate has come down from 3.2% in the pre-lockdown period to 2.1% during the last week

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Migrants to get cheap housing, universal ration

The Centre made the use of ration cards portable, allowing migrants to use them at any fair price shop in the country

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Pool testing awaits migrant labourers returning home

Real-time PCR based testing seen as a cost-effective method to scale up covid surveillance

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Govt needs to urgently reach out to poor, migrant labourers, says Kaushik Basu

NEW DELHI : India needs to urgently reach out to the poor and migrant labourers who are walking hundreds of miles to reach their homes, otherwise this will be a "failure for us", former chief economic advisor Kaushik Basu said on Thursday.

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Trump expels 600 migrant youth in April, cites coronavirus concerns

The young migrants and asylum seekers swim across the Rio Grande and clamber into the dense brush of Texas. Many are teens who left Central America on their own; others were sent along by parents from refugee camps in Mexico. They are as young as 10.

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Never talked about charging migrant workers; 85% fare borne by Railways, 15% by state govts: Centre

NEW DELHI : The government has not talked about charging anything from migrant labourers as 85% of the transportation cost is borne by the railways and 15% by state governments, the Centre said on Monday amid a row over the national transporter allegedly charging the workers for ferrying them home during the covid-19-induced lockdown.

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Indian Railways not selling train tickets to migrants: Report

NEW DELHI : The Indian Railways has said that it is charging only standard fare in Shramik special trains from State Governments, which is just 15 per cent of the total cost incurred by Railways.

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Migrant workers deserve their due

The covid-19 pandemic has brought to the forefront the apathy with which migrant workers are treated by the state. Estimates suggest that around 600,000 migrant workers are stranded on the road currently due to the lockdown and around 400 million informal workers are at the risk of falling into deeper poverty. Surprisingly, a review of recent legislative discussions would reveal that the benefit of migrant workers was on top of the mind of the government. So, what went wrong? In effect, the pandemic has exposed the complete disconnect between those in power and the ground realities. It is time to turn good intentions to reality.

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Donald Trump's 60-day immigration ban will not affect H-1B visa holders

US President Donald Trump said in a tweet he would sign an executive order prohibiting immigration into the country later on Wednesday, in the wake of protecting US workers amid the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic.

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H-1B visa holders unlikely to be affected by Trump's 60-day immigration ban

US President Donald Trump has said that his immigration ban will be for only 60 days and indicated that workers on temporary visas like H-1B for professionals could continue to come in.

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In light of coronavirus, Trump bans immigration

In an effort to protect American jobs and fight against the "invisible enemy"—COVID-19—President Donald Trump announced via Twitter late yesterday evening he was suspending all immigration into the United States.

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Trump announces 60-day 'pause' on immigration, will only apply to those seeking certain green cards

The president announced the suspension in a tweet on April 20.

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An Assamese writer confronts migration and exile

Jahnavi Barua’s latest novel is a coming-of-age story that resonates with our uncertain times

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President Donald Trump announces executive order to temporarily suspend immigration

The president announced the suspension in a tweet on April 20.

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Trump to suspend immigration into the United States amid coronavirus pandemic

The United States will temporarily suspend immigration amid COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Monday.

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MHA asks stranded migrant labours to get screened, return to place of work

NEW DELHI: The home ministry on Sunday paved the way for migrant workers and labours to return to their place of work in cities, given they do not show any symptoms of coronavirus.

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Odisha migrant worker cycles for 1,700 kms from Maharashtra to reach home

Bhubaneswar: After finding no public transport due to countrywide lockdown, a 20-year-old youth, who worked in Maharashtra, has returned home in Odisha after cycling around 1,700 km.

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Continue lockdown in hotspots till 30 April, run non-stop trains for migrants to return: Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan

'The danger posed by covid-19 continues across the country. The time is not yet ripe to withdraw the lockdown,' Vijayan said at a press briefing on Saturday evening.

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Migrants get desperate as lockdown extension looms

NEW DELHI : On the evening of 7 April, 26-year-old Vivekananda Sharma finally broke down.

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Litmus test for rural healthcare infra as reverse migration soars

NEW DELHI : The reverse migration of workers from metros towards their homes in villages has put the stressed and crumbling healthcare infrastructure in rural India to test.

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Coronavirus: 262 relief camps come up in Maharashtra for 70,000 migrants

Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Monday said the government has set up 262 camps for migrants across the state as Covid-19 deaths touched 9 with another 215 positive cases.

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UP administration sprays 'disinfectants' on migrants in Bareilly

NEW DELHI: Migrant workers heading for their villages had a harrowing time in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh on Monday when the administration allegedly sprayed disinfectant on a group of 100 such people.

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0

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