CILD learned that a Covid-positive Gambian man with an Italian residence permit had been transferred to a quarantine ship, with no prior notice. Dozens of similar cases of migrants being quarantined in this way soon emerged.

Belgium's secretary of state for asylum and migration, Theo Francken, has no money, but he does have ideas. His latest idea: financing at least 100 new places in a closed detention center by attaching processing fees...