A government program that held the promise of prosperity and smooth reintegration instead has frustrated returnees with burdensome requirements and a tortuous bureaucracy.
After the isolation of quarantine, returnees encounter nervous relatives, hostile neighbors and landlords who refuse to rent to them. A crippled economy and ravaged health care system heighten their plight.
The country's traveling workers already struggled to provide their families with access to consistent education. The coronavirus heightened that challenge.