47 infection or complication have access to addi- that they were only given one single-use mask tional monitoring and treatment.194 to use for the duration of quarantine, with no Application hand sanitizer provided. They also emphasized Many participants noted that few measures were being implemented to prevent against that mask wearing was not enforced in the quarantine. COVID-19 in the quarantines. There is often no Ahmed, who was quarantined in a small room further antigen test conducted on Chios, until on Chios in fall 2021, experienced a shocking the very last day of quarantine, prior to release. and unscientific COVID-prevention measure: Furthermore, some reported that the quarantine facility was incompatible with infectionprevention due to an inability to socially distance in the quarantine and an insufficient provision of masks and hygiene items. Depending on the number of arrivals at any given time, the quarantines have reached severe overcrowding, preventing any possibility of when one person in his room tested positive for COVID-19 and was taken to isolation, he and the other four people in the room “were not allowed to speak [for four days] ...” Only when Ahmed and his roommates tested negative four days later were they permitted to speak again. In another incident, from Chios, Ali, who was quarantined in winter 2022, stated that his group was not allowed to speak during their first day until they physical distancing. Recurrent interviews on were tested. Considering neither Ahmed nor Ali Chios confirmed that the eight upstairs rooms were provided masks until after the tests and were crowded with 4-9 people in each room, that Coronavirus is an airborne virus, this man- with beds within 1 meter of each other. When dated silence appears both cruel and unusual. the auditorium-like room is used, all asylum seekers sleep side-by-side on the ground. 195 Omer, quarantined in Chios in winter 2021, was quarantined in a small room with seven other people. He reported that the 34 people in the facility shared one bathroom. Despite frequent overcrowding, masks–the most basic of preventative health measures– were not always provided to those placed in quarantine. Omer, quarantined on Chios in winter 2021, confirmed that no masks were made available to him and the seven others in his quarantine room. Others quarantined in winter 2022 remember using masks but stated Ibid. Although this seems to have changed in March 2022 when a local NGO donated beds to increase the capacity to 160 by donating 40 additional beds. 194 195 ‘Quarantine of Asylum Seeker’ – A legal classification of the quarantine practice on Chios