FILE PHOTO: A child is pictured wearing a protective face mask as the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) spreads in the area around Roma settlements, in Krompachy, Slovakia April 9, 2020. REUTERS/Radovan Stoklasa
BRATISLAVA (Reuters) - Slovakia lifted a quarantine on the last of five Roma settlements that were closed off in April to contain the spread of the new coronavirus, a member of the European Parliament and the country's permanent crisis committee said.
"I would like to thank you for enduring this and for being patient and responsible. Stay careful," Peter Pollak, who is himself a Roma, told inhabitants at the settlement in a Facebook video posted on Friday.
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