Covid-19: Greece announces partial containment for one month
On Tuesday, partial containment will be put in place to fight the second wave of Covid-19 with a nighttime curfew as well as the month-long closure of bars, restaurants and gyms in Athens and other cities in the country .
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Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced partial containment from Tuesday to combat the second wave of Covid-19.
A nighttime curfew will be put in place as well as the closure for one month of bars, restaurants and sports halls in Athens and other cities in the country.
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It is not a containment like in the spring,
" assured the head of government during a televised message to the nation on Saturday.
In particular, schools and retail businesses will remain open.
“
The measures will start at 6 am Tuesday and traffic will be banned after midnight and until 5 am,”
Kyriakos Mitsotakis added.
He stressed that "
it was necessary to act now
" given the increase in the number of cases of the new coronavirus in recent weeks and so that intensive care units are not overwhelmed.
It is a plan that will last for a month to "
try not to affect
" Christmas, the prime minister said.
Faced with the resurgence of the epidemic, Greece last week instituted
a curfew between 10:30 p.m. and 3 a.m.
for two weeks in Athens and Thessaloniki, the two main cities of the country affected by the coronavirus and bringing together almost half of the population (10.9 million people).
Still less affected than its European partners, the country has a total of more than 37,000 cases since the outbreak of the epidemic at the end of February, and deplores 620 deaths.
More than a hundred people are currently in intensive care, their average age being 65, according to health services.
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To read: Covid-19: European countries are stepping up measures in the face of the second wave of the epidemic
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