‘Release us’: Asylum seekers fearful as COVID-19 spreads in Melbourne hotel outbreak

Asylum seekers Hossein Latifi from Iran and Iraqi Mustafa Salah are worried they’ll soon catch COVID-19.Iraqi asylum seeker Mustafa Salah has been held in immigration detention, with his father Salah Mustafa, since he was 14 years old.

Mr Salah has received one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine and his father is fully vaccinated. Still, they feel unsafe in the facility, with COVID-positive men in quarantine on the first floor of the hotel. SBS News has confirmed the man who was sent to hospital with COVID-19 last week is Iranian asylum seeker Mohammad Sohrabi.“I don’t know what to say. [I’m] just trying to breathe," he said.

“The vast majority - I think 43 of them - are transitory persons who were brought to Australia for a temporary purpose being medical treatment from a regional processing country," she said.Mr McKim pointed out that several groups of men who were held in detention centres have been released into the community over the past year.

How cruel is the Australian Government to keep asylum seekers in detention for so many years - this is heinous and so distressing.

Deport him now. Stop wasting our money.

So the government say there are no children in detention? That's because they keep children in detention so long they become adults. He was just 14 when this all started. Now implemented a policy that forces them to be exposed to COVID-19 via staff

there’s an easy and cheap way to ease Mustafas concern

Is he vaccinated because that will help obviously

8 years that’s ridiculous

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