Undocumented Workers Face COVID-19 Risk

Undocumented Workers Face COVID-19 Risk
Government Technology Agency (GovTech) staff demonstrate Singapore's new contact-tracing smarthphone app called TraceTogether, as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus in Singapore on March 20, 2020. Catherine Lai/AFP via Getty Images
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Undocumented migrant workers face a major risk of COVID-19 infection and could produce disease clusters, union-commissioned research warns.

There are between 60,000 and 100,000 undocumented migrants estimated to be in Australia, with many working fruit picking and other farm labour jobs.