ApartTogether survey, Preliminary Overview of Refugees and Migrants Self-Reported Impact of COVID-19
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This paper is an advocacy brief based on a perception survey called ApartTogether that aims to identify how the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (COVID‑19) has impacted refu‑ gees and migrants around the world, as experienced and reported by them, especially for social and public health aspects; there were over 30 000 respondents from almost all Member States of WHO. The following highlights the in‑ itial findings of the survey.
Self-reported COVID-19 health status, history of testing and seeking health care
Among the respondents, refugees and migrants (the sur‑ vey captured also those in irregular situation as “having no documents”), those living on the street or in insecure ac‑ commodation and those less likely to seek medical care in case of (suspected) COVID‑19 symptoms. Lack of financial means, fear of deportation, lack of availability of h