Bahrain: Cos. failing to sterilise "unfit" housing as migrant workers dependent on food aid during COVID-19 outbreak
"Food woes for quarantined migrants in Bahrain," 25 Apr 2020
In Bahrain, low-income migrant workers who are forcefully quarantined in cramped labour accommodations are left completely reliant on civil society organisations for food and basic necessities...
the government has quarantined workers en masse in their accommodations...
social workers on the ground... confirmed that authorities have provided little or no food for quarantined workers...
Officials have begun to relocate migrants from some informal labour accommodations to repurposed facilities like schools, sports centres and theme parks.
More than 600 informal labour accommodations were found to be “unfit for living”, and officials have warned of action against landlords.