Covid – rroma.org https://rroma.org Tue, 21 Apr 2026 17:16:38 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://rroma.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/cropped-greenwheel_large-1-32x32.png Covid – rroma.org https://rroma.org 32 32 Covid and Roma https://rroma.org/covid-and-roma/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=covid-and-roma Tue, 21 Apr 2026 17:16:38 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=32295 According to the Travellers’ Times, Covid saw an undercounting of the impact of the Covid epidemy on Travellers and Roma.

]]> Isolation during Covid https://rroma.org/isolation-during-covid/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=isolation-during-covid Tue, 22 Apr 2025 11:21:13 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=28034 A draft resolution in the Slovak parliament to apologize to Roma for being isolated by the state in settlements during the COVID-19 pandemic divided the parliament and provoked one of the harshest exchanges of opinions in recent years. The main protagonists were Progressive Slovakia MP Ingrid Kosová – of Roma origin – and the former mayor of Humenné, long-time MP for Smer Jana Vaľová.

Kosova stated: “It is a shame for Slovakia and a shame for all mayors and mayors who have not yet put a serious end to this situation”. Vaľová defended herself, stating how much she had done for the Roma community, but also saying “they do not pay their bills”.

]]> Roma and Covid https://rroma.org/roma-and-covid/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=roma-and-covid Tue, 04 Mar 2025 07:44:29 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=27364 A book, called “Ethnographic Methods in Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Research”, subtitled “Lessons from a Time of Crisis published in 2024 by Bristol University Press edited by anthropologist Martin Fotta from Slovakia and by Paloma Gay y Blasco from the University of St Andrews, investigates the impact of the covid pandemic on Roma communities.

]]> Slovakia, Covid-19 and Roma https://rroma.org/slovakia-covid-19-and-roma/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=slovakia-covid-19-and-roma Thu, 27 Jun 2024 11:00:18 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=24345 Some Roma communities in Slovakia were placed in absolute isolation during the Covid 19 pandemic, which nowadays thought to have been an overly restrictive measure which possibly violated the basic human rights of the inhabitants of the affected Roma communities.

]]> Slovakia, Covid, and Roma https://rroma.org/slovakia-covid-and-roma/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=slovakia-covid-and-roma Sun, 23 Jan 2022 15:06:14 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=15002 According to the Slovak Government, patients from the Roma community are twice as likely to die from Covid than the rest of the population. It is a combination of low vaccination, low living standards, insufficient health knowledge and high population density in these communities.

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