Police have responded to a protest by residents of an asylum seeker center in Germany. More than 500 migrants have been placed under quarantine after a man in the facility tested positive for the new coronavirus. Nationwide there ar1
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the UN Refugee Agency UNHCR have announced a temporary suspension of resettlement travel for refugees because of COVID-19.
The EU agency Frontex has reported that the number of irregular border crossings on Europe's main migratory routes in January and February 2020 rose by 27% compared to the same period last year.
One asylum seeker tested positive for coronavirus in a facility in the Monza and Brianza province in the Lombardy region in Italy. The far-right League party has demanded to put all 130 asylum seekers in the facility under quarantin1
The leaders of Germany, Turkey, Britain and France held a video call to try to stop a new EU migration crisis. Chancellor Angela Merkel pledged to keep to an earlier pact that pays Turkey for taking back migrants.