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Challenges posed by COVID-19 to refugee camps on the Greek islands: We are all humans after all
 
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Department of Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases Unit, University Hospital of Heraklion, Heraklion, Greece
 
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Department of Paediatrics, General Hospital of Sitia, Sitia, Greece
 
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School of Medicine, European University Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
 
 
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Nikolaos Spernovasilis   

Department of Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases Unit, University Hospital of Heraklion, PO Box 1352, 71110, Heraklion, Greece
 
 
Pneumon 2020;33(2):7-8
 
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