Advocates have long worried about potential for an outbreak at Matamoros camp, where an estimated 2,000 migrants liveThree asylum seekers at camp near US border test positive for coronavirusThree asylum seekers have tested positive for coronavirus in a sprawling border encampment, marking the first cases in a settlement that advocates have long viewed as vulnerable amid the pandemic. Global Response Management (GRM), a non-profit providing medical services in the camp, said on Tuesday it is proactively testing and isolating all close contacts of the three migrants who tested positive. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Medical staff take samples from a patient suspected of having coronavirus in a hospital at a migrant encampment in Matamoros. Photograph: Daniel Becerril/Reuters“We have five patients in isolation: two who are awaiting results of testing and three who have tested positive on antibody testing,” said the GRM executive director, Helen Perry. After the group disclosed the first confirmed case, two more migrants tested positive on Tuesday, Perry said.

Source: The Guardian June 30, 2020 21:11 UTC