The World Health Organization (WHO) expects all countries to take care of refugees and migrants, who are particularly vulnerable to health threats, amid coronavirus outbreak, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Friday
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 28th February, 2020) The World Health Organization (WHO) expects all countries to take care of refugees and migrants, who are particularly vulnerable to health threats, amid coronavirus outbreak, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Friday.
"We also expect each and every country to take care of refugees and migrants [within] their borders and they should not leave anyone behind, because even one case can spark a fire," Tedros told a daily press briefing.
WHO Emergencies Program Executive Director Michael Ryan explained that vulnerable population, particularly people living in conflict areas, refugees and migrants were "very exposed" to the COVID-19 outbreak.
"But they are also very exposed to cholera, very exposed to measles, very exposed to many other pathogens. We have a huge responsibility to prevent COVID-19 from affecting those populations, but to also serve them with the basic life-saving interventions that they need," Ryan said.
