COVID-19 cases add to Mizoram’s Myanmar refugee crisis
The Hindu
Army deserters and lawmakers among at least 15,500 people who have crossed over as civil disobedience movement rages in the neighbouring country
The death of a Myanmar national in State capital Aizawl and infection among scores of others in a few districts has added to the refugee crisis in Mizoram. Almost a third of more than 15,500 Myanmar nationals who fled a are in Aizawl. One of them died at a centre in Aizawl on Wednesday, the 30th in the State due to infection by the novel coronavirus since May 2020. The Mizoram government has been caught in a Catch-22 situation. It can neither ignore a March 10 order from the Ministry of Home Affairs to not let the refugees in nor prevent locals from providing accommodating and assisting the Myanmar nationals.More Related News