(AFP) Greece on Thursday reported its first novel coronavirus infection in one of its overcrowded asylum seeker camps.
A 35-year-old man from Yemen living at the camp of Vial on the island of Chios tested positive late on Wednesday, a migration ministry official told AFP.
“The man has been quarantined at the local hospital. Another 30 people are undergoing tests,” the official said.
There are over 3,800 people living inside the Vial camp, over three times its nominal capacity.
Several non-fatal coronavirus cases have surfaced in Greek camps on the mainland — including 150 infections at a migrant hotel in the Peloponnese in April.
