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17 NGOs call on Min. Mitarakis to restore health coverage for migrants as more arrive at islands
Seventeen humanitarian organizations on Tuesday sent a joint letter to Migration and Asylum Minister Notis Mitarakis, expressing their concern about the thousands of asylum seekers and their children living in Greece and who do not have access to the public health system.
Twelve die as boat with migrants sinks southwest of Paxi island
A boat carrying migrants sank 13 nautical miles southwest of Paxi island as it was taking on water with twelve people dead.
A total of 46,026 migrants and refugees arrived at the Greek islands in 2019
Nearly 50,000 migrants and refugees arrived at the islands of the northern Aegean in 2019, according to figures released by authorities on Thursday. According to these, a total of 27,148 migrants and refugees arrived on the island of Lesvos, another 8,076 persons arrived on Chios and 10,802 on Samos over the year. The number of arrivals on Lesvos was nearly double that in 2018 (14,906).