Coronavirus: 'Symptoms' at three immigration removal centres (BBC News) (25 March 2020)

The BBC reports on how three immigration removal centres in the UK are housing people with symptoms of coronavirus. Immigration lawyers are aware of the Home Office continuing to arrest people and place them in IRCs during the coronavirus pandemic, something that due to the inability to remove people to their countries of origin because of the lack of deportation flights, is putting all those held in immigration detention at risk of contracting the virus. Public law director Toufique Hossain comments; "…it is now abundantly clear the Secretary of State has no lawful basis to detain simply because removals can no longer take place."