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Greek Island of Lesvos in State of Emergency after Catastrophic Fire

The entire Greek island of Lesvos was put under a state of emergency for four days starting from today, Wednesday. This declaration was enacted to address the emergent nature of public health and security on the island as the...

Thousands Flee Fire at Notorious Greek Migrant Camp of Moria

Thousands of migrants fled the overcrowded camp at Moria, on the Greek island of Lesvos, after multiple fires gutted much of the site early on Wednesday. The severely-overcrowded camp, home to more than 12,000 migrants and refugees, was under COVID-19...

Greece Announces 169 New Coronavirus Cases, One Death Amid Scattered Outbreaks

Greek health officials announced 169 new coronavirus cases Tuesday, and one new death. Of the new cases, just 15 were discovered through testing of visitors at Greece's points of entry. Currently, 42 patients are intubated and receiving treatment in Greek hospitals. One...

Greece: 156 New Covid Cases, Nine in Moria Migrant Camp

Greek health officials announced 156 new Covid cases in the country on Monday. This includes nine cases diagnosed in the overcrowded migrant camp Moria on the island of Lesvos. The country recorded five new deaths with the virus in the...

Greek Migration Minister Stopped from Entering Moria Camp on Lesvos Due to Unrest

  According to local Greek media reports, Greece's Alternate Migration Minister Giorgos Koumoutsakos, accompanied by Armin Laschet, the state premier of Germany's West Rhine-Westphalia region, was stopped from entering the Moria refugee camp on Tuesday due to unrest at the facility. The German...

Afghan Woman Stabbed to Death in Greece's Moria Migrant Camp

An Afghan woman died at the Moria migrant camp on the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos on Saturday, after reportedly being stabbed by another woman. According to the Athens-Macedonia News Agency, the 23-year-old was rushed to the camp’s medical center,...

Two Migrants Injured After Shots Fired at Lesvos Camp

Two migrants were hospitalized with slight injuries after gunshots were fired into Greece’s largest migrant camp on the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos. The unknown assailant or assailants evaded arrest, while the two injured migrants were taken to the island’s...

Migrants Fearful of Coronavirus at Moria Camp Demand Move to Greek Mainland

Dozens of migrants and refugees on Wednesday staged a sit-in outside the notorious Greek camp of Moria, on Lesvos island, demanding to be transferred to the mainland and claiming that they have been exposed to the coronavirus. The protesters, who,...

Afghan Migrant Kills Teenager in Moria Camp on Lesvos Island

A 16-year-old Afghan teenager was stabbed and killed early Wednesday morning by a 20-year-old Afghan man a short distance from the north gate of the Moria Reception and Identification Centre (RIC) on the Greek island of Lesvos. The 16-year-old was...

MSF Says Greece's Moria Migrant Camp is a Coronavirus "Time Bomb"

The migrant camp at Moria, on the island of Lesvos, the largest in Greece, is a "time bomb" waiting to explode as the coronavirus has spread to the local population, an official from the group Doctors without Borders (MSF)...