Virus Case Detected At Second Greek Camp: Officials
Muhammad Irfan Published April 05, 2020 | 12:40 PM
Athens, April 5 (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 5th Apr, 2020 ) :Officials in Greece on Sunday placed a second migrant camp near Athens under lockdown after an Afghan resident tested positive for the coronavirus, the migration ministry said.
Officials said the camp in Malakasa, some 38 kilometres (24 miles) northeast of Athens, had been placed under "full sanitary lockdown" for 14 days, with no one allowed to enter or leave.
The ministry said the 53-year-old Afghan man, who has a prior ailment, had personally sought help with virus symptoms at the in-camp medical facility.
He was subsequently taken to an Athens hospital where he tested positive, and his family was quarantined.
A full screening of the camp is in process, the ministry said.
Among Greek migrant camps, where tens of thousands of asylum-seekers live in dire conditions, there is already an outbreak at a facility in Ritsona near Athens where 23 people have so far tested positive.
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