Millions of immigrant workers, already suffering from
precariousness, fear for their health and jobs in the face of measures taken in
the Gulf countries to stop the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.
More than 3,400 cases of infections and 16 deaths due to the
epidemic have been declared in the Arab monarchies of the Gulf, slowing down
the economic activity of these countries, which employ large amounts of foreign
labor.
"We have been locked up for eight or ten days. We don't
know when this is going to end, ”a Pakistani engineer in Qatar, who has been
quarantined, tells AFP.
"The fundamental problem is maintaining access to
food," explains the 27-year-old man, who says he receives food from the
government but "in a small quantity."
Like him, tens of thousands of foreigners are confined to
the Doha industrial zone after some of them contracted the covid-19 disease.
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