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Marginalized community- migrants, prisoners, slum dwellers and daily wagers

Majority of international migrant workers in the public health structures are already overstretched and live in areas with high incidence of Covid-19. These people are more likely to be discriminated against. Furthermore, immigrants and refugees may even have to bear with the stigma of remaining as a speculated source of outbreak in a community where home-quarantine has been implemented. Considering the lethal communicability of this disease, migrants, refugees and slum-dwellers are at heightened risk of contracting and spreading the infection

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Updated 2020-08-06

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SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19)

Biomedical Sciences