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Greece will soon ban trawling in its marine protected areas and will be the first European country to do so.This was announced by the country's Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mytsotakis.The Greek ban will come into force in 2026 for marine national parks and in 2030 for all marine protected areas.At the same time, Mytsotakis also announced the creation of two new large marine national parks, one in the Ionian Sea and one in the Aegean Sea, which will cover 11.7 percent and 6.6 percent of the surface of the Greek seas respectively.Trawling is a highly impactful technique that consists of dragging fishing nets across the seabed, catching everything that comes across it.A similar ban has been talked about for decades almost everywhere, but until now no European nation had made it official. The announcement of the ban on trawling launched by the Greek Prime Minister Mytsotakis came on the occasion of the Our Ocean Conference, a global initiative founded in 2014 with the aim of “drawing int...

Athens, Greece.First recorded case of COVID-19 among migrants.She is a 19-year-old woman who tested positive in the last week of March, when she was admitted to hospital to give birth to her baby. The young mother lives in the Ritsona refugee camp on the mainland, located about 70 kilometers north of Athens, which hosts 2,300 people (of which 252 unaccompanied minors) and that he was quarantined last Thursday for at least two weeks, after the positive results of the test to which 20 asymptomatic migrants were subjected (which later became 23). Read also >> Covid-19 and health emergency:It is essential to protect the rights and health of migrants and refugees Health officials are investigating the source of the infection and testing many camp residents to determine how many have contracted the virus. The Greek Ministry of Migration has announced that travel will be severely limited and monitored by the police. Read also >> Over 40 thousand refugees in camps that could accom...