Greece’s health authorities imposed a 14-day quarantine into a migrants camp in Malakasa, near Athens, after a 53-year-old Afghan man was tested positive on coronavirus. The lockdown started on Sunday morning.
The man has developed symptoms of COVID-19 and has been transferred to a hospital on Saturday afternoon and is under fill medical surveillance. His family is isolated in a container.
Health teams are tracing the man’s contacts, police has been deployed outside to safeguard that all residents stay inside.
The facility that hosts around 2,500 people, is a so-called “open” with residents to be able to go outside and return whenever they want.
The facility is has also a “closed structure” that has gone in operation on March 15, when hundreds of migrants who illegally arrived on the islands after March 1, were transferred there.
It is not clear, whether the Afgan family belongs to the new arrivals who live 25 people inside a tent in the closed structure.
According to the Migration Ministry, authorities will provide the camp residents with food supplies and health care.
Malakasa is the second camp on the mainland, and thus in North-East Attica, in lockdown.
On April 2, the camp in Ritsona was placed in full lockdown after a refugee woman was tested positive after giving birth to a child in a hospital in Athens.
No cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in the hotspots on the islands.
