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'Coronavirus doesn't respect barbed wire': concern mounts for Greek camps - Calls grow for EU countries to accept refugees as outbreaks fuel fears that virus could rampage through overcrowded facilities

"In Aegean islands on the frontline of the crisis, health carers speak of days gained, not won."
"In Aegean islands on the frontline of the crisis, health carers speak of days gained, not won."

“But an outbreak of the disease in two facilities near Athens has intensified concerns over the estimated 36,000 men, women and children stranded on remote isles opposite the Turkish coast.

Installations on Lesbos, Samos, Chios, Leros and Kos – at six times over capacity, sprawling, wretched and congested – where social distancing, and other precautionary measures are an impossible privilege, offer fertile ground for Covid-19.”

‘Coronavirus doesn’t respect barbed wire’: concern mounts for Greek camps – Calls grow for EU countries to accept refugees as outbreaks fuel fears that virus could rampage through overcrowded facilities (Guardian, ,link)