Greece’s Migration Ministry confirmed on Tuesday evening that two migrants have been tested positive to COVID-19. They had arrived on the island of Lesvos with boats from Turkey last week.
The two migrants are asymptomatic and have been placed in isolation within a temporary refugee accommodation facility at Megala Therma, amna news agency reports.
The two were detected in a random testing of nine residents.
The facility was leased by the ministry from a local owner and is being used as a quarantine facility.
It houses 70 refugees in total, of whom 51 arrived in Kalo Limani, Skalochori, last Wednesday, May 6. Another boat with 19 migrants arrived in Lapsarna, on Sunday, May 10.
Medical staff of the National Public Health Organisation (EODY) will test all of the remaining residents on Wednesday, as well as any police officer and coast guards who came in contact with them.
Since March 1 anyone arriving on the island has been placed in quarantine at a separate facility with no contact with larger groups of asylum seekers at other facilities like the Moria camp on the island.