Recommendations for the response against COVID-19 in migratory contexts under a closed border: The case of Colombia

Despite the positive response of Colombia’s health system to the arrival of Venezuelan migrants, the new challenges that accompany the COVID-19 pandemic have triggered a closed-borders response that runs the risk of encouraging a negative view of migrants and increasing their health risks. This manu...

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Published in:Biomédica
Main Authors: Julián Alfredo Fernández-Niño, Andrés Cubillos, Ietza Bojórquez, Michael Rodríguez
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Spanish
Published: Instituto Nacional de Salud 2020
Subjects:
emigration and immigration
public health
pandemics
coronavirus infections
covid-19
venezuela
colombia
Medicine
R
Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine
RC955-962
Arctic
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.7705/biomedica.5512
https://doaj.org/article/a57160fd9a5f449aa9e3603ce4656ed0
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Summary:Despite the positive response of Colombia’s health system to the arrival of Venezuelan migrants, the new challenges that accompany the COVID-19 pandemic have triggered a closed-borders response that runs the risk of encouraging a negative view of migrants and increasing their health risks. This manuscript discusses the recommendations that could be proposed in the case of a country with limited resources such as Colombia to respond to the needs of the Venezuelan mixed migrant flows.

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