Citation

Lanzarone A, Tullio V, Argo A, Zerbo S. Med. Leg. J. 2021; 89(1): 29-30.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2021, Medico-Legal Society, Publisher SAGE Publications)

DOI

10.1177/0025817220937447

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The Covid-19 pandemic is a global health emergency that requires immediate, effective action by governments to protect the health and basic human rights of everyone's life. Refugees and migrants are potentially at increased risk because they typically live in overcrowded conditions often without access to basic sanitation. Since the beginning of the official lockdown for Covid-19, the medico-legal assessment of physical violence related to obtaining status or other forms of human protection has been frozen.

Language: en

Keywords

Asylum seekers; containment measures; human rights; medico-legal evaluation