Roma settlement in Larissa in coronavirus quarantine
The settlement, with an estimated population of around 3,000, was placed under strict quarantine at the orders of Deputy Civil Protection Minister Nikos Hardalias and secretary general Vassilis Papageorgiou.
A 32-year-old man who first tested positive for the novel coronavirus had come into contact with at least 31 other residents. Of those, 17 had been tested by Thursday evening and 12 were found to be positive for SARS-Cov-2.
The incident "confirms the worst-case scenario," Larissa Mayor Apostolos Kalogiannis said in a statement to the Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA), expressing fears of the virus spreading across the community.
The lockdown applies from April 9, 2020 at 23:00 until April 23, 2020, at which time the situation will be re-evaluated. The local authorities have undertaken to supply the settlement with food and everything else that is needed.
Source: ana-mna