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Coronavirus deepens struggles for migrant workers in Gulf countries

-The Indian Express

A large number of migrants in the Persian Gulf come from India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, and the Philippines. The loss of income will not just affect the workers but will also echo across continents in their home countries, which receive billions of dollars in remittances every year.

New Delhi: As multiple countries across the globe try to grapple with the lockdown imposed due to coronavirus pandemic, migrants in the Gulf States have been dealt with a harsh blow, a report in The New York Times said. They have been locked down in cramped, unsanitary dorms, without any income and unable to return home due to the travel restrictions.

A large number of migrants in the Persian Gulf come from India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, and the Philippines. In Qatar, many of them are locked down in a crowded neighborhood, raising fears it will become a coronavirus hotbed. Companies in Saudi Arabia have told foreign workers to stay home — then stopped paying them, the report further added. Saudi Arabia’s health ministry said on April 5 that more than half of its cases of Covid-19, the disease the virus causes, were foreigners.

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