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In this Saturday, May 23, 2020 photo, a Lebanese policeman is deployed to enforce isolation outside a building where dozens of foreign workers living in overcrowded apartments have tested positive with the coronavirus, in Beirut, Lebanon. Some 250,000 registered migrant laborers in Lebanon – maids, garbage collectors, farm hands and construction workers – are growing more desperate as a crippling economic and financial crisis sets in, coupled with coronavirus restrictions. With no functioning airports and exorbitant costs of repatriation flights, many are trapped, unable to go home. (Photo by Hussein Malla/AP Photo)
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