FILE PHOTO: Medical staff from Global Response Management take samples from a patient suspected of contracting coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at an isolation area of a hospital installed at a migrant encampment, where more than 2,000 people live while seeking asylum in the U.S., in Matamoros, Mexico May 1, 2020. REUTERS/Daniel Becerril/File Photo
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Three asylum seekers have tested positive for coronavirus in a sprawling encampment steps from the U.S. border in Matamoros, Mexico, marking the first cases in a settlement that advocates have long viewed as vulnerable amid the pandemic.
Global Response Management (GRM), a nonprofit providing medical services in the camp, said it is proactively testing and isolating all close contacts of the three migrants who tested positive.
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