Covid-19 cases among workers returning from UAE alarm govt

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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has raised concerns with the United Arab Emirates that workers are returning home from the Gulf nation with high rates of Covid-19 and that crowded living conditions in the UAE may be helping the virus to spread, the foreign ministry said.

“It has been taken up officially with UAE authorities,” ministry spokeswoman Aisha Farooqi said via WhatsApp. “Both govts are working together to find [an] optimal solution to this shared concern.”

The UAE’s foreign ministry did not immediately comment when contacted by Reuters.

The UAE is home to around 1.5 million Pakistanis, many of whom are low-wage workers who live in crowded housing and are now out of work but stranded due to limited repatriation flights.

Around 60,000 Pakistanis have registered to return home from the UAE, according to Pakistan’s consulate general in Dubai.

The UAE earlier warned it could review labour ties with countries refusing to take back nationals who have been stranded, lost jobs or have been put on leave due to the coronavirus pandemic and want to return home.

Pakistan is facing the challenge of quarantining thousands of overseas workers wanting to return home while it deals with its own fast-growing number of cases, as infections reached more than 22,000 with over 500 deaths.

Published in Dawn, May 6th, 2020
https://www.dawn.com/news/1554931/covid-19-cases-among-workers-returning-from-uae-alarm-govt

 

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that crowded living conditions in the UAE may be helping the virus to spread, the foreign ministry said

I said the same thing before, and users came to the defense of UAE.

https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/105-...t-positive-for-covid-19.664598/#post-12299861

The crowd situation has been like that for years. The gulf government don't care about this. They treat all South Asian like crap. Housing 150 people in housing that is meant for only 60 or 70max. If anyone protests, the employers kick them out of the country, and put a ban on them from entering the country again.

 

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I said the same thing before, and users came to the defense of UAE.

https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/105-...t-positive-for-covid-19.664598/#post-12299861

The crowd situation has been like that for years. The gulf government don't care about this. They treat all South Asian like crap. Housing 150 people in housing that is meant for only 60 or 70max. If anyone protests, the employers kick them out of the country, and put a ban on them from entering the country again.

Yes, these thousands confined in small rooms spreading more virus.

check this out ..