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Thousands of refugees fear coronavirus after being abandoned on Turkish-Greek border
Migrants stand outside container houses in Moria refugee camp on the northeastern Aegean island of Lesbos, Greece
SOME 10,000 refugees are at heightened risk of coronavirus at the Turkish-Greek border with nowhere to go, despite being asked to “stay at home” to prevent spread of the disease.
Muhammed Salih, who is among those to have been waiting at the Kapikule border for 20 days, warned that the situation is “really bad.”
“Everyone is afraid of catching the coronavirus here. We don’t want to be sick.
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