Almost half of the around 13,000 residents of the burned down refugee camp Moria on the Greek island of Lesbos are now in the hastily erected interim camp been housed. 6000 people have now entered the campsaid a spokesman for the Greek Ministry of Migration. So were 157 of them positive for the novel corona virus tested. After the fires in the Moria camp last week, thousands of refugees slept on Lesvos by the roadside and in supermarket places under makeshift canopies made of branches or in camping tents.
The Greek authorities started building a new camp on Saturday with UN support. According to the authorities, the asylum procedures for migrants are to be resumed there. Many refugees refused but to go to the camp because they fear to be there again stuck for months. From Thursday morning, the police had gone from sleeping place to sleeping place to wake up the camping, homeless people and bring them to the emergency camp.
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