'Not much has been left standing,' MSF Head of Mission in Greece Stephan Oberreit told Newsweek.
A major fire tore through Greece's biggest refugee camp overnight, leaving the Moria camp on the island of Lesbos almost entirely destroyed.
Migrants, asylum seekers and refugees at the camp were forced to quickly flee the site, with many having no choice but to leave their few possessions behind. Those reports are still unconfirmed, Oberreit said. However, he said that whether the fire was sparked intentionally or not, the situation at the Moria refugee camp has been a ticking"time bomb" for some time now that"has just exploded."
And in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, those issues have only been heightened, with the handling of a recent coronavirus outbreak at the camp causing widespread unrest.Last week, the camp had been placed under quarantine after a migrant tested positive for COVID-19.
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