<span style="color: #222222;">Activists are setting up thousands of chairs outside the German parliament in Berlin to underline their calls to take in migrants from an overcrowded camp on a Greek island.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">&nbsp;</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The 13,000 chairs being set up in front of the Reichstag building today are meant to symbolize the inhabitants of the Moria camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, as well the readiness of some German cities and states to take migrants in.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">&nbsp;</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Sea-rescue activist groups say that&nbsp; the first confirmed coronavirus case at Moria adds urgency to long-standing calls for the camp's evacuation.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">&nbsp;</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Greek authorities last week imposed a 14-day quarantine on Moria after one man who had been living in a tent outside the camp fence tested positive for the virus.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">&nbsp;</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">As of August 31, the Moria camp housed more than 12 thousand people, several times its capacity.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">&nbsp;</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Germany's federal government has agreed to take in a total of 243 children from camps in Greece who need medical treatment, as well their closest relatives.</span><br />'' &nbsp;
News On AIR | September 7, 2020 5:33 PM
Chair protest in Berlin to underline calls to evacuate migrants from overcrowded Greek camp