Posted on 04/02/2020 2:31:26 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
ATHENS - Greece has quarantined a migrant camp after 20 asylum seekers tested positive for coronavirus, the migration ministry said on Thursday, its first such facility to be hit since the outbreak of the disease.
Tests on 63 people were conducted after a 19-year-old female migrant who gave birth in hospital in Athens was found infected, becoming the first recorded case among thousands of asylum seekers living in overcrowded camps across Greece.
None of the confirmed cases showed any symptoms, the ministry said, adding that it was continuing its tests.
Greece, which recorded its first coronavirus case at the end of February, has reported 1,415 cases so far, and 50 deaths.
It is the gateway to Europe for people fleeing conflicts and poverty in the Middle East and beyond, with more than a million passing through Greece during the migrant crisis of 2015-2016.
More than 40,000 asylum-seekers are stuck in overcrowded refugee camps on Greece’s outlying islands, in conditions that aid organisations say are appalling and which the government itself has described as a “ticking health bomb”.
“This news confirms what we have been repeatedly calling for; it is urgently needed to evacuate migrants out of the Greek islands to EU countries,” said Leila Bodeux, policy and advocacy officer for Caritas Europa, an aid agency.
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send them all to kuwait? to riyadh? to abu dhabi? where they will be all welcome. how about to mecca? so many choices.
No culling?
Shoot them.
“ send them all to kuwait? to riyadh? to abu dhabi? where they will be all welcome. how about to mecca? so many choices.”
*****
Send them to Germany......
So much for ‘moslem immunity’ ehh ?
HA !
There's some invincible stupidity right there.
“More than 40,000 asylum-seekers are stuck in overcrowded refugee camps on Greece’s outlying islands, in conditions that aid organisations say are appalling and which the government itself has described as a “ticking health bomb”. “
Well, those NGOs are more than welcome to take those ‘refugees’ back to Iraq, or wherever the hell they claim to be from.
Wasn’t the Greek gov soft on immigration to Europe for these people?
Didn’t the Greeks love lecturing all the rest of us on our lack of tolerance?
Weren’t these immigrants welcomed (at first), so the Greeks could grandstand and take the ‘moral high ground’ on this issue?
Well-exactly WHAT did they think would result in hosting whole populations with zero oversight of any kind?
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