ATHENS, Greece: Greece’s federal government spokesperson states more than 200 people have tested positive for the coronavirus among thousands of asylum-seekers admitted to a brand-new camp on the island of Lesbos after the old one burned down.
Speaking during a regular rundown Monday, Stelios Petsas said 7,064 people who entered the brand-new camp at Kara Tepe had actually been evaluated, and 243 of them were found favorable.
The average age of those verified positive was 24, and most were asymptomatic, Petsas said. An additional 160 people, generally authorities and administrative staff who had entered into contact with the migrants, were tested and all were negative for the virus.
Petsas said the positive cases from Lesbos would be added to Greece’s main coronavirus figures Monday. Health authorities launch everyday statistics of the infection’s spread every night.
More than 12,000 asylum-seekers were left homeless almost 2 weeks ago after fires on 2 successive nights ruined the infamously overcrowded Moria camp. Greek authorities have stated the fires were intentionally set by a little group of Afghans outraged by lockdown and seclusion orders imposed after 35 people in the camp checked favorable for COVID-19
The migrants spent a number of nights sleeping rough by the side of a roadway in makeshift shelters, and held at least two protests, participated in by thousands, to demand to be permitted to leave the island.
Authorities have actually built a brand-new facility consisting of family camping tents put up on an old shooting range in a coastal area of the island. They launched a campaign over the weekend to persuade those who had been sleeping rough to go to the new camp, and thousands have complied.
Others are still sleeping rough in fields and in an olive grove outside the residues of Moria. Authorities were expected to attempt to have them move into the brand-new camp over the coming days.
Nationwide, Greece has actually been experiencing a renewal of the infection, with the variety of brand-new day-to-day cases frequently topping 300, and both deaths and the number of those in intensive care units increasing.
Greece has actually had simply over 15,000 confirmed favorable cases and 338 deaths in this nation of nearly 11 million individuals.
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