Authorities moved 16 Roma, residents of a community near Nea Smyrni in central Greece who were found infected with coronavirus, to a rehabilitation center in the city of Larissa on Saturday.
They are some of the 20 total confirmed cases in the Roma community, which was visited on Friday by a task force comprising Civil Defence Deputy Minister for Crisis Management Nikos Hardalias and Health Ministry spokesman on novel coronavirus Sotiris Tsiodras.

A Roma settlement in Larissa, central Greece, was set under quarantine on Thursday after several residents tested positive for coronavirus.

Greece and the United States have recently been engaged in intensive negotiations on the signing of a new, updated Mutual Defense Cooperation Agreement (MDCA) that will replace the existing one dating back to 1990 (which has become known as "the bases' agreement") and is considered obsolete due to the rapid changes that have taken place in recent years.