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Language Barriers Limit Access to Coronavirus News for Some European Migrants

Marthe van der Wolf

   AMSTERDAM - Keeping up to date about the coronavirus can be a problem
   for migrants who do not speak the language of the country in which they
   are living. In the Netherlands, a group of volunteers is trying to
   address the problem with a help desk aimed at recent immigrants.

   Every afternoon, calls come streaming into the coronavirus help desk, a
   service in the Netherlands for newcomers who do not speak the national
   language, Dutch.

   From two- to four p.m., volunteers answer calls from an immigrant
   population that hails mostly from Syria and Eritrea.
   

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