'Invisible' migrants 危険 存在 last in line for COVID-19 ワクチン接種
By Anastasia Moloney and Nita Bhalla
BOGOTA/NAIROBI, Jan 21 (Thomson Reuters 創立／基礎) - As an undocumented migrant living in Colombia, Venezuelan Leidi Gutierrez has little chance of getting a COVID-19 ワクチン接種. With the death （死傷者）数 rising 急速な／放蕩な, the mother-of-two said all she could do was pray.
"I ask God to 保護する us from the coronavirus. If we get sick, I don't know what to do. Would a hospital take us in?," said Gutierrez, who fled a 深い 経済的な 危機 in her 母国 two years ago, as she begged in the Colombian 資本／首都, Bogota.
"I've heard about a ワクチン coming but I don't think about that. I need to 料金d my children," the 32-year-old said.
As Latin American nations start to 開始する，打ち上げる 集まり COVID-19 inoculations, after more than 500,000 deaths, 権利s groups 恐れる some five million Venezuelan migrants and 難民s living across the 地域 will be last in line - or could 行方不明になる out altogether.
Colombian 大統領 Ivan Duque has said the nearly one million undocumented Venezuelans in Colombia, which has 登録（する）d 50,000 coronavirus deaths, will not be 適格の for a ワクチン接種 when the roll-out is 予定 to begin next month.
申し込む／申し出ing 発射s to unregistered migrants would 原因（となる） "a 殺到" 予定 to Venezuela's 崩壊するing healthcare system, he told Reuters this month, though he 勧めるd the international community to help Colombia 安全な・保証する ワクチンs for the migrants.
In the Dominican 共和国, which hosts hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants from Venezuela 同様に as Haiti, 大統領 Luis Abinader said ワクチン 発射s would not be given to anyone without residency papers.
Erika Guevara-Rosas, Americas director at 国際アムネスティ, said the 大統領，／社長s' 声明s were "alarming and irresponsible", 最高潮の場面ing 権利s groups' 恐れるs that migrants 世界的な could be 除外するd by "ワクチン 国家主義".
"This is not the time to leave most 攻撃を受けやすい migrants and 難民s behind. Venezuelans must be 含むd in 国家の ワクチン rollouts," said Dominika Arseniuk, country director of the Norwegian 難民 会議 in Colombia.
As many lower-income countries struggle to acquire enough doses and begin ワクチン接種 programs quickly, some are putting their own 国民s first, said Rachel Schmidtke, Latin America 支持する at 難民s International.
"A sense of scarcity (of ワクチンs) can 産む／飼育する ワクチン 国家主義," she told the Thomson Reuters 創立／基礎.
の中で the most at 危険 from 行方不明の out on ワクチン接種 are those Venezuelan migrants on the move - many trekking thousands of miles (キロメーターs) across South America on foot.
"They tend to be invisible. But even if they were to be 含むd in a ワクチン接種 program, we have to find the 機械装置 to sort of not lose them because many of the ワクチンs 要求する a 二塁打 jab," said Jeff Wilkinson, 上級の 操作／手術s officer at the U.N. 難民 機関 (国連難民高等弁務官).
'INVISIBLE' MIGRANTS
援助（する） groups worry that other undocumented migrant 労働者s across the world, 含むing in the Middle East, Africa and Southeast Asia, are also hard to reach and 危険 存在 left behind.
"Men can be working on construction 場所／位置s and 軍隊d to live on that construction 場所／位置 ... 国内の 労働者s can be invisible and 限定するd to the house," said Ezekiel Simperingham, 全世界の 移住 lead at the International 連合 of Red Cross and Red 三日月 Societies.
"If those people are already invisible from the 当局 ... then they are almost certainly, without a 一致した 成果／努力, going to be invisible from ワクチン接種 （選挙などの）運動をするs."
In the Middle East, 研究員s from human 権利s group Equidem 研究 and 協議するing, said they 恐れるd many undocumented 労働者s would not want to take the ワクチン even if they were 申し込む／申し出d it by host countries.
"These countries have a history of 拘留するing undocumented 労働者s in poor 条件s and so even if the ワクチン is 利用できる, many are ありそうもない to come 今後 and take it," said Namrata Raju, Equ idem's India director.
He said many of the undocumented migrant 労働者s they had spoken to were "very, very 脅すd of 刑罰の 活動／戦闘 taken against them if they are identified as undocumented".
While there is no 公式の／役人 data on undocumented 労働者s in the 湾, Raju said there were likely hundreds of thousands of people from African and South Asian nations working in the oil-rich 地域 without the 訂正する 許すs and documentation.
In South Africa, the worst-攻撃する，衝突する African country with about 1.3 million COVID-19 事例／患者s, the ワクチン roll-out has yet to begin as the nation races to fight off a new, more 感染性の variant.
The first doses, 的ing healthcare 労働者s, are 推定する／予想するd to arrive by the end of January but there has been no について言及する of whether undocumented migrants will be 含むd and the Department of Health did not 答える／応じる to queries on the 問題／発行する.
While reliable 人物／姿／数字s on undocumented migrants in South Africa are hard to 接近, 政府 人物／姿／数字s 示唆する there are 1.6 million people born outside of the country with most coming from Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique and Lesotho.
"I'm very 関心d that we will see either formal or de facto 差別 against undocumented migrants when it comes to ワクチン 接近," said Jo Vearey, director of the African 中心 for 移住 and Society, a 研究 学校／設ける.
HERD IMMUNITY
確実にするing 難民s and migrants get vaccinated is 重要な to ending the pandemic through herd 免疫, which 要求するs a large 部分 of a community developing a degree of 免疫 to a ウイルス either through natural 感染 or ワクチン接種.
In Singapore, the junior 大臣 for 動員可能数 Tan See Leng said last month migrant 労働者s would receive the ワクチン 解放する／自由な of 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金, just like all other 国民s and long-称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 居住（者）s.
Cramped 寄宿舎s 住宅 more than 320,000 South Asian low-income migrant 労働者s account for the 本体，大部分／ばら積みの of 感染s in the city-明言する／公表する.
In Bangladesh, where nearly a million Rohingya 避難 es from Myanmar live in （軍の）野営地，陣営s rife with COVID-19, the U.N. 難民 機関 (国連難民高等弁務官) said it was having "生産力のある discussions" with 当局 to 確実にする equitable ワクチン 接近.
"除外するing Rohingya 難民s from ワクチン接種 計画（する）s carries the 危険 of 現在進行中の 伝達／伝染 in these 全住民s, with spillovers into the 国家の 全住民," said 国連難民高等弁務官 広報担当者 Mostafa Mohammad.
In Jordan, a major host country for about 750,000 難民s, 含むing many from Syria, 難民s have fared better.
Last week, it became one of the first countries in the world to immunize 難民s as part of a 国家の ワクチン接種 program open to anyone living within its 国境s 関わりなく their 移民／移住 status, によれば the 国連難民高等弁務官.
Antonio Vitorino, director general of the U.N.'s International Organization for 移住, said 含むing migrants in ワクチン 運動s was 決定的な.
"As the 長官 general of the U.N. has said: Nobody's 安全な until everybody is 安全な," he said. (報告（する）／憶測ing by Anastasia Moloney in Bogota, Nita Bhalla in Nairobi, Kim Harrisberg in Johannesburg, Naimul Karim in Dhaka, Chrissie Murray in Mexico City and Rina Chandran in Bangkok; 令状ing by Anastasia Moloney; Editing by Helen Popper; Please credit the Thomson Reuters 創立／基礎, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers the lives of people around the world who struggle to live 自由に or 公正に／かなり. Visit http://news.信用.org)
