{"id":179,"date":"2021-11-12T14:47:35","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T09:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asiafirstdaily.com\/?p=179"},"modified":"2021-11-13T00:03:03","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T18:18:03","slug":"who-very-concerned-about-migrants-stranded-in-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiafirstdaily.com\/?p=179","title":{"rendered":"WHO ‘very concerned’ about migrants stranded in Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

COPENHAGEN, Nov 12, 2021 (AFP) \u2013 <\/strong>The World Health Organization said on Friday it was “very concerned” about the health situation of thousands of migrants stranded in Belarus amid a border standoff with the European Union.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We urge “all states to protect the right to health of refugees and migrants along the Belarusian border, many of whom need medical assistance,” said WHO Europe director Hans Kluge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I am very concerned about the thousands of vulnerable people who are stranded in no-man’s land on Belarus’ borders with Poland, Latvia and Lithuania, at the mercy of the weather as winter fast approaches,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hundreds of migrants, mainly Kurds, have been stuck for days on the Belarusian-Polish border in near-freezing temperatures, with aid groups warning of a looming humanitarian catastrophe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At least 10 have died in the region, seven of them on the Polish side of the border, according to the Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Western states accuse the Belarusian government of luring them to the country and sending them to cross into Poland in retaliation for sanctions over Minsk’s crackdown on the opposition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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