'Trapped' illegal workers in Saudi look to virus for escape

Jobless and broke, Sudanese electrician Hatem is stranded in limbo in Riyadh like countless other illegal workers, but he hopes the fast-spreading coronavirus will offer a chance for escape.While coronavirus drives a huge exodus of expatriates, campaigners say potentially hundreds of thousands of illegal workers remain stranded in Saudi Arabia, complicating efforts to fight the disease.The pandemic has laid bare what activists call systemic injustices roiling the lives of blue-collar foreign wor