Greece to ship hundreds of migrants to mainland from camp on Lesbos

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ATHENS: Greece will move hundreds of migrants from a camp on the island of Lesbos to mainland facilities on Sunday (May 3) as part of efforts to ...

Migrants from the Moria camp wearing protective face masks board a ferry that will transfer them to the mainland as a precaution against the spread of the coronavirus outbreak, on the island of Lesbos, Greece. REUTERS/Elias MarcouATHENS: Greece will move hundreds of migrants from a camp on the island of Lesbos to mainland facilities on Sunday as part of efforts to ease overcrowding, police and government officials said.

"Authorities are getting ready to transfer a group of about 395 migrants seen as vulnerable later today to the mainland via ship," a police official, who declined to be named, said.Migrants from the Moria camp, some of them wearing protective face masks, wait to board a ferry that will transfer them to the mainland as a precaution against the spread of the coronavirus outbreak, on the island of Lesbos, Greece.

"The goal is to transfer about 2,400 from island camps to mainland Greece," a Migration Ministry official said.

 

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