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The aftalo quarantine camp on the north coast is far from the country’s largest camp in Moria, Lesbos, where some 18,000 people live in facilities designed for less than 3,000 people.
In late April, Human Rights Watch warned that the Greek authorities “have not done enough to address the serious overcrowding in the asylum-seeker camps and the lack of medical care, access to adequate water, sanitation and hygiene services to reduce the spread of the Corona virus. ” “
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The injured asylum seekers showed no symptoms of the “Covid-19” epidemic, but were placed in a private health detention center far from the rest of the migrants.
The migrants were among a group of 70 people, who arrived aboard two ships to Greece on May 6 and 10, the first group to arrive in Greece by sea in more than a month, after Greek officials reinforced the border controls, to prevent the outbreak of the Corona virus.
For its part, Turkey announced that it will not prevent asylum seekers from crossing the border into neighboring Greece.
Authorities evaluated 68 other migrants who arrived by boat, as well as others who were in contact with the patients. All migrants have been quarantined since their arrival in Lesbos.
Human rights defenders have long warned that overcrowding and poor living conditions within migrant camps located in Lesbos and other eastern Aegean islands could result in some 40,000 asylum seekers detained there, many of them minors are vulnerable to contracting the coronavirus, despite the fact that no cases have been reported so far on the islands.
The aftalo quarantine camp on the north coast is far from the country’s largest camp in Moria, Lesbos, where some 18,000 people live in facilities designed for less than 3,000 people.
In late April, Human Rights Watch warned that the Greek authorities “have not done enough to address the serious overcrowding in the asylum-seeker camps and the lack of medical care, access to adequate water, sanitation and hygiene services to reduce the spread of the Corona virus. ” “
