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For Greek Camp Migrants, COVID-19 Quarantine Was Spark

Reuters

   LESBOS, GREECE - For asylum-seekers trapped in the overcrowded facility
   on Greece's island of Lesbos, Moria was hell most days. But a
   coronavirus quarantine was the final straw.

   It was just before midnight Tuesday when eight migrants who tested
   positive for COVID-19 were told by authorities they would be isolated
   to an area just beyond the gated compound, according to witnesses and
   government officials.

   Their relatives would also be moved into the fenced unit, about 40
   small wooden houses on a hill inside Greece's biggest migrant
   settlement set up to deal with any breakout of COVID-19, for further
   testing.

   The news did not go down well, and scuffles broke out in the area,
   surrounded by olive trees, the witnesses and officials said. The melee
   spread when other migrants in tents close to the isolation unit joined
   the fray.

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