Highlights
As of October 2, the number of sea arrivals since the beginning of 2015 has exceed 400,000. Over 40 % of refugees who arrived to Greece by sea in 2015, arrived in September. The average daily sea arrivals during the reporting period was 5,500 persons a day, compare to 4,900 persons a day during the first two weeks of September.
Some ad-hoc informal, solutions have been found to improve accommodations in islands as well as in Athens and Eidomini as the weather conditions started being inclement. These emergency shelters represent a real improvement for accommodations of people of concern. However, they remain temporary and often substandard.
Eight shipwrecks took place off the coasts of Lesvos and Kos, taking the live of 4 people. Another 37-39 people, including many children, were estimated to have gone missing.
The opening of a transit site in Eidomeni, providing service and protection to refugees has a significant impact in term of easing tensions and strengthening protection of people of concern, especially the most vulnerable. Daily, an average number of 5,700 people crossed the border with the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia during the reporting period.