There at the moment are no folks on the Manston migrant processing centre that skilled extreme overcrowding earlier this month, Sky News understands.
The Home Office website in Kent, the place hundreds of migrants arriving in small boats have been taken because it opened in February, presently has zero folks in it.
In current weeks Manston, a former army base, has been on the centre of controversy as it’s designed to carry as much as 1,600 folks for not more than 24 hours.
But earlier this month there have been about 4,000 folks within the centre, a few of who mentioned they’d been there for for much longer than they need to have been.
Migrants mentioned they had been sleeping on cardboard and unrest was spreading because of the circumstances.
Concerns over infectious ailments had been raised, with stories of diphtheria.
On Tuesday, Rishi Sunak’s spokesman mentioned Manston is supposed to be a brief holding facility the place individuals are moved on “often fairly quickly”.
He mentioned numbers spiked when one other centre was set on hearth so migrants from there needed to be moved to Manston.
“You would expect numbers to be relatively low on a daily basis,” he added.
Migrants who get despatched to Manston are moved into the Home Office’s asylum lodging system, which not too long ago has typically meant a resort as a consequence of a scarcity of obtainable lodging.
Three days in the past, a person staying at Manston grew to become unwell and died after arriving within the UK by small boat the weekend earlier than.
There is “no evidence at this stage” to counsel the dying was “caused by an infectious disease”, the Home Office mentioned.
The Home Office mentioned there can be no detailed remark till a autopsy examination has been carried out.
Since the start of November, there have solely been three days when migrants have arrived in Kent by way of the Channel.
From 12-14 November, 2,225 migrants arrived however there have been zero arrivals on all different days as much as 20 November, the most recent Home Office figures present.
Source: information.sky.com”