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Athens on standby for possible moves by Turkey

Greece remained on alert over the long Easter weekend with its coast guard and navy on standby, due to concerns that Turkey may escalate tensions either in the Eastern Mediterranean, the Aegean or at the Evros land border in order to divert attention from the domestic problems faced by Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government. 

Migrants sew masks at Moria camp

Migrants from the Moria camp on Lesvos are seen on Wednesday sewing handmade protective face masks at the premises of the nongovernment organization Team Humanity after the Greek government imposed a nationwide lockdown to contain the spread of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19). [Elias Marcou/Reuters] 

Another 604 migrants bound for deportation to be transferred to the mainland

The government on Friday began transferring a total of 604 migrants from the islands of Samos, Chios and Lesvos to closed facilities on the Greek mainland.

The transfer concerns people that entered Greece iafter March 1, 2020, when the government decided to suspend the asylum procedure for all new arrivals amid an influx of arrivals from the coast of Turkey.

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