A refugee camp outside Athens is on lockdown after at least 20 refugees tested positive for COVID-19. Roughly 60,000 refugees live in camps in Greece, some with little access to water or soap.
Migrants gather outside at a refugee camp in Ritsona, north of Athens, on Thursday. Greek authorities have placed the camp under a 14-day quarantine, after at least 20 residents tested positive for COVID-19 infection.Migrants gather outside at a refugee camp in Ritsona, north of Athens, on Thursday. Greek authorities have placed the camp under a 14-day quarantine, after at least 20 residents tested positive for COVID-19 infection.
Authorities were first alerted earlier this week, when a 19-year-old resident of the camp tested positive for COVID-19 after giving birth at an Athens hospital. Healthcare workers immediately began testing more than 60 Ritsona camp residents who had come into contact with the woman. The 20 who tested positive for COVID-19 currently do not have symptoms, Greece's migration ministry says.Testing of the 2,700 refugees living in Ritsona will continue during the 14-day quarantine.
At the most notorious camp, Moria, on the island of Lesvos, some areas have"just one water tap for every 1,300 people and no soap available," Dr. Hilde Vochten, the medical coordinator for Doctors Without Borders in Greece,."This means that recommended measures such as frequent hand washing and social distancing to prevent the spread of the virus are just impossible."
"Those seeking protection in the refugee camps face a catastrophe as soon as COVID-19 breaks out there," warnedMitarakis, the Greek migration minister, told members of the European Parliament's home affairs committee that there is no room on the Greek mainland for the refugees.
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