COVID-19 Creates New Challenges for Migrants in Afghanistan and Abroad | The Storyteller
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COVID-19 is having a wide-ranging impact on mobility between Afghanistan and the Islamic Republic of Iran - a global coronavirus hotspot and destination for hundreds of thousands of Afghan migrant workers - which reopened its economy in late April. Since that time, the number of new infections has spiked from roughly 2,000 per day to nearly 3,600 new daily infections on 5 June. In the month of March alone, over 160,000 undocumented migrants returned home to Afghanistan from cities across Iran; a dangerous narrative that the returnees brought COVID-19 home with them is unsupported by evidence, yet the resulting anti-migrant stigma has been widespread, influencing government policy and driving local communities to isolate and in some cases prevent the return home of Afghans from Iran.
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