Illegal immigration has raised a concern of spreading the virus. Would you think illegal entries of people fleeing their countries to avoid the Covid-19 pandemic or repatriates may also pose a risk of spreading the disease?
In theory fleeing persons (refugees) carrying the virus that are entering undetected over a green (land) or blue (sea) border could spread the virus.
But much more likely is it entering it into a country by help of legal passengers.
The habit of measuring / testing the body temperature is useless, because there may be 10,000 causes for fever in a human...
And symptoms may show as late as 10 or 12 days after infection. And SARS-CoV-2 is a very vicious virus which sometimes does not show symptoms at all...
So: it is way more likely to introduce/spread it by normal travels of humans... And that is how it has happened to my knowledge...
Yes, for example, the Ghanaian Government received widespread praise from around the world for the innovative way they handled the pandemic. This made most neighboring countries to illegally immigrate to Ghana with intention of safe haven.
IAM Muslim. The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said from more than 1400 years if an epidemic occurred in a country and you are in it then do not get out of it and if you descended in a country while you are outside it do not enter it and this is to prevent the spread of the epidemic and this is what the countries apply and recommended by the World Health Organization until now
I am writing to you from Amazonas, Peru. When Lockdown started 2 and a half months ago we had 0 cases, now there are more than 400. The main reason: The illegal and unregistered movement of people that has produced several local clusters in previous uninfected areas. I think the problem is that when you enter an area or country illegally, you do it without the authorities realizing it and therefore cannot impose quarantines when necessary.
