First Mclays Guest House in Glasgow, and now Dungavel Detention Centre has suffered a Covid outbreak. It’s the first rule of a global pandemic, isn’t it. Don’t crowd people together or they are at risk of all catching this virus. It saves them and the public. But did the UK Government listen? The Scottish Government must challenge the Crowding of refugees and asylum seekers into hotels and detention centres. The people in Mclays and Dungavel must all be tested and those who test negative should be relocated immediately into private accommodation where they can sanitise their own environment. Otherwise there is every chance that everyone including the staff in these institutions will get the virus. People should never have been put into hotels or left in Dungavel and this is the inevitable result. Will human life be respected or will they leave people to their fate? It’s just one blunder after another and there needs to be a public inquiry.
Robina Qureshi