Covid caused record fall in migration in 2020: OECD

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The flow of immigrants to developed countries fell at its fastest pace ever at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic last year, Reuters quotes the OECD club of leading economies as saying in a report.

Some 3.7 million people immigrated last year to the 38 leading developed and emerging economies that make up the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, the lowest level since 2003, the OECD said in its annual migration report.

“The Covid-19 crisis caused the sharpest drop on record in migration flows to the OECD, of more than 30 per cent,” the report added.

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