Despite outcry, vaccinations for migrants remain crucial 28 Apr 2021 / 08:46 H. Bernama
This is the first of two articles on the Covid-19 vaccination of migrants.
KUALA LUMPUR: Ensuring migrants have equal access to the Covid-19 vaccine is crucial to gain control of the coronavirus, despite calls to have non-citizens pay for them or sideline them altogether, experts say.
Datuk Dr Ahmad Faizal Mohd Perdaus, president of MERCY Malaysia, said scientific evidence, and not public sentiment, should dictate public health measures.
“Public health wisdom dictates we have to ensure as many people as possible . get immunised, get vaccinated so that we can have herd immunity, which will then hopefully come into effect and break the chain of transmission once and for all.
Wednesday, 28 Apr 2021 08:49 AM MYT
A foreign worker is pictured outside his shared house in Kuala Lumpur September 13, 2020. Picture by Yusof Mat Isa
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KUALA LUMPUR, April 28 Ensuring migrants have equal access to the Covid-19 vaccine is crucial to gain control of the coronavirus, despite calls to have non-citizens pay for them or sideline them altogether, experts say.
Datuk Dr Ahmad Faizal Mohd Perdaus, president of Mercy Malaysia, said scientific evidence, and not public sentiment, should dictate public health measures.
“Public health wisdom dictates we have to ensure as many people as possible. get immunised, get vaccinated so that we can have herd immunity, which will then hopefully come into effect and break the chain of transmission once and for all.
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Biden in a bind as migrants swell at the border
08 Mar 2021 A day after an SUV packed with migrants crashed in Imperial County last week, leaving 13 dead, police in southern Mexico encountered a disturbing scene: more than 200 US-bound Central Americans, a quarter of them children without adult
Patrick J. McDonnell,
Tribune News Service
A day after an SUV packed with migrants crashed in Imperial County last week, leaving 13 dead, police in southern Mexico encountered a disturbing scene: more than 200 US-bound Central Americans, a quarter of them children without adult supervision, crammed inside a tractor trailer.
The two incidents the fatal collision in California, and the discovery of the migrant-jammed big rig more than 1,000 miles away dramatise the challenge facing the Biden administration as US officials struggle with a conundrum: How to dismantle Trump-era immigration restrictions, as Biden has promised to do, without triggering a mass convergence on
A day after an
SUV packed with migrants crashed in Imperial County last week, leaving 13 dead, police in southern Mexico encountered a disturbing scene: more than 200 U.S.-bound Central Americans, a quarter of them children without adult supervision, crammed inside a tractor trailer.
The two incidents the fatal collision in California, and the discovery of the migrant-jammed big rig more than 1,000 miles away dramatize the challenge facing the Biden administration as U.S. officials struggle with a conundrum: How to dismantle Trump-era immigration restrictions, as President Biden has promised to do, without triggering a mass convergence on the Southwest border.