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Two new immigrants from Turkey have been tested for the new coronavir on the Greek island of Lesbos, officials said on Wednesday.
Greek authorities are already trying to control outbreaks of COVID-19 coronavirus infection in an Athens hospital and a Roma community.
Infected immigrants, reportedly African without symptoms, have been quarantined in tents in the coastal zone, away from the island’s overcrowded immigrant camps, authorities said.
The two migrants were among 51 asylum seekers from Afghanistan and Africa who arrived on the island on May 6, a local police source said.
Coronavirus has not yet been tested in all Greeks in contact with this group. However, as a precautionary measure, 25 locals and two coast guard officers were quarantined, the civil protection administration said.
In Greece, more than 150 people have died from COVID-19. The government is gradually opening the economy after six weeks of universal quarantine.
Most stores started operating this week, with high schools and outdoor archeological sites opening on May 18. Private beaches must be open on Sundays.
The migrant camps will be closed until May 21. Cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in two camps and one hotel in mainland Greece, but have not yet been identified in migrant camps on the islands.
In the migrant camps on the islands of Lesbos, Chios, Samo, Leros and Kos, which were built to receive less than 6.1 thousand. people, there are currently more than 33 thousand. asylum seekers.
Earlier on Wednesday, state television ERT reported that 25 employees of the Elpis state hospital in Athens had been quarantined when a patient was examined for coronavirus. Four hospital workers were infected with the virus, the Greek Federation of Public Hospital Workers reported.
Authorities also investigated the outbreak in a Roma area near the central city of Larissa on Wednesday. In the area where the disease appeared in April, 10 new cases of infection have now been identified. More than 650 tests were conducted there Wednesday, the Civil Protection Administration said.
Larissa city spokeswoman Aris Psyc said seven of the 10 infected were members of the same family.
To date, tests have found coronaviruses in 60 people from the Rome area in question, quarantined at a local clinic, a spokesperson told AFP.
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