COVID cases spiking in migrant detention centers, report says
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Migrant detention centers are seeing a spike in coronavirus cases as the number of detainees being held in them have almost doubled in recent months, a report says.
"On-site medical professionals are credited with reducing the risk of further spreading the disease by immediately testing, identifying and isolating the exposed detainees to mitigate the spread of infection," Paige Hughes, an ICE spokeswoman, told the New York Times, adding that all new detainees are tested for the virus upon entry. But public health officials said to the newspaper that migrants who are captured are transported by bus – and therefore are in close proximity to one another – prior to being tested at the facilities.More Related News