Alleviating COVID 19 misery of the forcibly displaced G20 action

The patient was a health professional working at a hospital.7 Since then and the testing capacity increased with two new PCR devices.8 By early December, the number of positive COVID-19 cases was 17,527.9 The worrisome development is the spread of the virus in the IDP camps where containment measures are too fragile to avoid a catastrophe.10 The situation in northeastern Syria is equally dim. [...] Although the type of assistance was not disclosed, the list consisted of 300,000 Syrian households.35 Considering that the average size of a Syrian household has 5.5 members, this means 1.65 million Syrians in Turkey are negatively exposed to the consequences of the Coronavirus. [...] While Syrian and Afghan students also suffer from the lack of internet and the necessary devices to follow with e- classes,42 the parent’s poor command of Turkish, which is needed to either secure the access to the platform or help children with homework, compounds the fortune of the lucky students who have internet and adequate devices to join EBA.43 Education is a human right and no student’s ed. [...] COVID-19 and informal migrant workers: Situation in circular migration The impact of the pandemic is perhaps more severe on developing countries, where the majority of the forcibly displaced people are located, yet the situation is not only specific to them as developed countries are also on the same boat. [...] Thus, creating a shortage of 40,000 foreign seasonal workers and exacerbating the situation of Turkish tea growers.52 Fortunately, Turkey’s reservoir of asylum seekers and refugees, namely from Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, and Senegal, jumped to the rescue, filled the shortage, and saved the season.53 Needless to say, the workers can use the paycheck to survive the period of economic stagn.