Thu 02 December 2021:
Internal displacement is increasing around the world, despite COVID-19 mobility restrictions, as a result of natural catastrophes, military conflicts, and violence, according to the International Organization for Migration’s (IOM) World Migration Report 2022, released on Wednesday.
“We are witnessing a paradox not seen before in human history. While billions of people have been effectively grounded by COVID-19, tens of millions of others have been displaced within their own countries,” IOM’s Director General Antonio Vitorino said in a press release, commenting on the publication of the report.
According to the report, the number of individuals internally displaced increased to 40.5 million in 2020, up from 31.5 million in 2019. At the same time, worldwide air passenger numbers fell by 60% in 2020, from 4.5 billion in 2019 to 1.8 billion.
Due to its rapid spread, emergence of new viral strains, and high death toll, COVID-19 has become the most serious pandemic of the twenty-first century. Governments responded to the pandemic by imposing a variety of mobility restrictions, including mandatory stay-at-home orders, bans on gatherings, closures of public spaces, and restrictions on both internal and international travel.
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