‘A decades-old problem studiously ignored by successive governments – despite so many articles written and questions raised in Parliament and elsewhere – is going to come back and bite us on our backsides as we desperately deal with increasing numbers of infections and deaths from the Covid-19 pandemic.
‘Unless and until the problem of migrants – specifically migrant workers, both documented and undocumented – is properly considered and included in any Covid-19 mitigation programme, things will continue to get worse even as more people are vaccinated. And there is no telling how long the problem will be around us.
‘The only way to overcome this major roadblock is to simply remove it and wholeheartedly include as many as six million migrant workers (which is about a third of the documented and undocumented workforce of an estimated 18 to 19 million) into the vaccination programme – the only workable solution right now to mitigate the pandemic and get back to some form of normalcy.’
Read here (The Vibes, July 29, 2021)
