WHO publishes new study on the pandemic’s impact on migrants In December 2020, the World Health Organisation published the results of its survey on the impact of COVID-19 on migrants, including people with irregular status, as experienced and reported by them. 35% of the (more than) 30,000 migrants surveyed said they did not seek health care for suspected COVID-19 infection because of financial constraints, while 22% avoided doing so because of fear of deportation. Responses show that many civil society and other support organisations played an important role in disseminating accessible information on COVID-19. US government extends COVID aid to households with undocumented family members In December 2020, the United States Congress passed with broad bipartisan support a 900 billion USD coronavirus relief package that will allow mixed status households (comprised of U.S. citizens and undocumented family members) to receive 600 USD of direct COVID-19 related financial assistance, with an additional 600 USD for each dependent child. The legislation also makes mixed status households retroactively eligible for one-time payments of 1200 USD per household and 500 USD per child under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act of March 2020, from which they had been excluded.