Risk of Spread
The Manston holding centre has made headlines over the past few
weeks, with pro-immigration campaigners threatening legal action against
UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman over conditions at the facility.
Illegal immigrants are meant to be at Manston for only short periods
of time before being moved to the Home Office’s asylum accommodation,
but some people have been held for longer periods due to a lack of
alternative accommodation.
At one point as many as 4,000 people were being detained at the site, which is designed to hold just 1,600.
Public health experts have raised concerns about the spread of the disease as people were moved from the facility to hotels.
According to the Sunday Times, Jim McManus, president of the
Association of Directors of Public Health, said: “This situation could
and should have been prevented and it is entirely arguable that the lack
of information, co-ordination and engagement from the Home Office has
made the situation far worse than it could have been.
“It has created additional and preventable burdens on local health
systems and has put both asylum seekers and potentially hotel workers at
avoidable and preventable risk.
“We want to work constructively and effectively as directors of
public health with the government for the good of everybody. We offered
the Home Office collaboration and our efforts were rebuffed.”
Where Were They Infected?
Liberal Democrat health spokeswoman Daisy Cooper said the Home Secretary “must take responsibility and resign immediately.”
“The UK is better than this. The Conservative government should be
ashamed of their callous complacency over the health and wellbeing of
asylum seekers coming out of Manston,” she said.
But a Cabinet minister insisted that the illegal immigrants had contracted the disease before arriving in the UK.
Transport Secretary Mark Harper told Sky News on Nov. 27: “We take
the welfare of people in our care very seriously. My understanding is
those cases were people who had that disease before they came to the
United Kingdom.”
He insisted the UKHSA is working “very closely” with the National
Health Service (NHS) “to make sure we look after the people who have
been identified with diphtheria to make sure they get the treatment and
the care they need.”
Preventing Further Spread
With illegal immigrants having been moved from Manston to hotels
around the country, health officials are advising that vaccines and
preventative courses of antibiotics are offered to people on arrival at
their new accommodation.
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) warned that accommodation
settings should be considered “high-risk for infectious diseases.”
As of Nov. 10, the UKHSA had identified 39 diphtheria cases in asylum seekers in England in 2022.
Dr. Trish Mannes, UKHSA director for the South East, said: “The risk
of diphtheria to the wider public remains very low, due to high uptake
of the diphtheria vaccine in this country and because the infection is
typically passed on through close prolonged contact with a case.
“In order to limit the risk of diphtheria being passed on within
asylum seeker settings, UKHSA continues to recommend that individuals
arriving at reception centres, and who have moved on recently, are
offered a diphtheria vaccine and preventative treatment.”
The UK immigration system has been put under immense pressure as more
than 40,000 illegal immigrants have crossed the English Channel to
reach the UK this year.
According to figures from the Home Office, the number of illegal
crossings has soared in recent years, with 28,526 people detected in
2021, compared to 8,466 in 2020, 1,843 in 2019, and 299 in 2018.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/uk-to-vaccinate-newly-arrived-illegal-immigrants-against-diphtheria-after-one-death-reported_4887962.html
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