COVID-19 pandemic exposes gaps in European migrant health policies & accelerates need to build inclusive public-health and migrant integration systems

BRUSSELS — As elsewhere in the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has pushed European health-care systems to their limits. But the harms have not been felt evenly, with migrants and refugees having a higher risk of coronavirus infection and a mortality rate that is two to five times greater than for the native born. These disparities have exposed the gaps in how countries across Europe are approaching migrant health needs.