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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...

Greece's Moria Migrant Camp Quarantined After First Covid Case Detected

Greek health authorities placed the overcrowded migrant camp of Moria, on the island of Lesvos, in quarantine for 14 days beginning Wednesday, after they detected the first case of coronavirus there. Authorities say the positive sample was taken from a...

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,...

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)...

Population of Greece's Notorious Moria Migrant Camp at All-Time High

The population at the Reception and Identification Centre in Moria on the Greek island of Lesvos, with a capacity of 3,000 individuals, reached an all-time record of 13,842 people, authorities announced on Tuesday. Migrants and refugees continue to pour in...

Governor of Moria Migrant Camp on Greece's Lesvos Island Resigns, Citing Fatigue

The governor of the overcrowded Moria migrant camp on the Greek island of Lesvos handed in his resignation on Wednesday, citing fatigue. Yannis Balbakakis told the Athens-Macedonian News Agency (AMNA) that he is leaving his post with his head held...

Clashes Break Out at Moria Migrant Camp on Lesvos

Clashes between migrants and police broke out on Wednesday at the notoriously overcrowded migrant camp called Moria on Greece's Lesvos Island. According to local media, the clashes began when a brawl erupted between different migrant groups after a protest was...

Greece Admits that Migrants May Die in Moria Migrant Camp

Greek Minister for Migration Yiannis Mouzalas did not exclude the possibility of deaths at the migrant camps this coming winter. In an interview to German magazine Der Spiegel, Mouzalas was explicitly asked whether he can guarantee that nobody is going...

Chaos in Moria Migrant Center: Migrants Burn Asylum Service Building

Turmoil prevails at the Moria hotspot on Lesvos on Monday. A large number of migrants, mostly from Pakistan, are protesting over the long stay and delays over the examination of asylum applications. Asylum Service employees abandoned the premises that 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...

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...

Greece to Set Up New Migrant Detention Camps, Shut Down Notorious Moria

The Greek government on Wednesday announced plans to shut down the notorious migrant camp at Moria on the island of Lesvos and set up five new detention centers on the Aegean islands of Samos, Chios, Lesvos, Kos and Leros. According...

Rioting Breaks Out at Greece's Moria Camp After Migrant Dies in Fire

Greek riot police clashed with angry migrants at the Moria Reception Center on Lesvos on Sunday after one woman died in a fire at the infamous camp. A child which was initially thought to have been also killed, is injured...

Number of Refugees, Migrants at Moria Camp Drops Below 6,000

The number of migrants and refugees at the Moria reception and hospitality center on Lesvos has dropped below 6,000, according to new figures by the Ministry of Migration Policy released on Thursday. Specifically, out of 7,850 asylum seekers currently on...