They are cold, hungry and cannot meet their basic needs, according to a new report on climate migration in South Asia. "Increasingly, people in Afghanistan are being displaced not by conflict but by the impacts of climate change," said Massoud Eiman of the Tadbeer Consulting and Research Organisation in Afghanistan. Eiman said infection rates were likely much higher - including among displaced people - than low levels of testing might suggest. "Some countries that suffer the worst impacts of climate change will encounter a situation where it is those climate change impacts and the displacement (they) create which additionally hampers them in preventing the spread of COVID-19," he said. Government measures were needed both to provide migrants with essentials like food, education and shelter, and to help farmers and rural communities become more resilient to climate change so they do not have to leave, Singh added.

Source: bd News24 May 08, 2020 06:56 UTC