A migrant makes his way in the Ritsona camp, during a nationwide lockdown to contain the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Ritsona, Greece, March 31, 2020. Picture taken March 31, 2020. REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece has quarantined a migrant camp after 20 asylum seekers tested positive for coronavirus, the migration ministry said on Thursday, its first such facility to be hit since the outbreak of the disease.
Tests on 63 people were conducted after a 19-year-old female migrant who gave birth in hospital in Athens was found infected, becoming the first recorded case among thousands of asylum seekers living in overcrowded camps across Greece.
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