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Poverty September 8, 2020 | 9:27 am

Pandemic forces 70,000 Haitians to return home

Santo Domingo.- Since the coronavirus pandemic began in the country last March, and until July, some 70,000 Haitians have returned to their country voluntarily to avoid contagion, due to lack of sources, employment and of health services. According to Dominican Republic’s National Migration and Refugee Board coordinator William Charpantier, the data is the result of the monitoring by the Inte

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