EU urged to evacuate asylum seekers from cramped Greek island camps

Calls for evacuation of 42,000 people to prevent 'many deaths' from coronavirus Coronavirus - latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage The European Union has been urged to evacuate asylum seekers from overcrowded camps on the Greek islands in order to save lives. The European parliament's civil liberties, justice and home affairs committee has called for the evacuation of 42,000 people on the Greek islands as "an urgent preventive" measure to avoid "many deaths" from coronavirus.