Geneva – IOM, the UN Migration Agency, reports that 9,286 migrants and refugees have entered Europe by sea through the first 62 days of 2019, about a 10 per cent decrease from the 10,330 arriving during the same period last year. Deaths on the three main Mediterranean Sea routes through over eight weeks of the year are at 226 individuals, or just under half the 464 deaths occurring during the same period in 2018 (see chart below).