Germany To Take Up To 500 Children From Greek Camps
Gulf Today|April 09, 2020
Children and adolescents, who arrived at the camps without their parents, ‘will at first be placed in quarantine for two weeks,’ before being housed in various regions, the ministry said.
Germany To Take Up To 500 Children From Greek Camps

Germany will take in up to 500 unaccompanied minors from Greek migrant camps over the coming weeks, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said on Wednesday, and urged other EU countries to follow suit.

“We said (to the Greek authorities and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees) that we want to take in between 350 and 500 children in the next few weeks,” Maas said in an interview with the RTL/ntv broadcaster.

The minister said he hoped other countries would follow suit. “We want to set an example here.” Germany announced on Tuesday that it would take in 50 children from migrant camps on the Greek islands of Lesbos and Chios.

The transfers could begin next week, the interior ministry said in a statement.

The children and adolescents, who arrived at the camps without their parents, “will at first be placed in quarantine for two weeks,” before being housed in various regions, the ministry said.

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