China News Service, December 21. According to Euronet, citing EUN News Agency reports, on the 20th local time, statistics from the Ministry of Health of Greece showed that the country had 588 new confirmed cases of new crown that day, and the cumulative number of confirmed cases increased to 131072; There were 70 deaths, and the cumulative number of deaths was 4172.
According to reports, in recent days, the number of new cases in Greece has shown obvious signs of reduction. However, the Greek government and medical experts have repeatedly warned that they hope that the public cannot relax their vigilance during Christmas and New Year, otherwise they will face the third wave of the epidemic after the holiday.
According to reports, the Greek government has announced the implementation of "enhanced" blockade measures in Elefsina, Manzira, Aspropigos in the western region of Attica, and Kozani in the northern region.
In addition, the Greek authorities will launch an online platform "testing.gov.gr" on the evening of December 21, local time. After registration, the public can participate in the "New Crown Random Test" for free.
The authorities plan to conduct 12,000 random tests every day, hoping that this will enable the Ministry of Health to better understand the spread of the epidemic and improve preventive measures in advance to block the chain of virus transmission.
According to reports, Greece is currently implementing blockade measures. People must send SMS notifications before going out. The reasons for going out are only for work, medical care, shopping, sports, helping people, and walking the dog, and between 10 pm and 5 am the next day. Implementation of a curfew (the "hard blockade" area is subject to a curfew from 6 pm to 5 am the next day).
However, the center of the capital, Athens, was still crowded during the weekend of December 19.
Many Athenians went to Syntagma Square and the surrounding area to view the Christmas tree and colorful lights for walking, shopping or picking up goods in stores.
In this regard, Greek health experts strongly urge the people to abide by the epidemic prevention rules and not to let the festival become a hotbed of a new wave of new crown epidemics, so as not to take further severe restrictions after the blockade measures expire on January 7, 2021.
Chakirs, director of the Microbiology Laboratory of the University of Athens School of Medicine, said that due to weather and festivals, a more serious epidemic is expected to "return" in January 2021. Although some people have been vaccinated by then, new cases will be added. There may still be explosive growth.
In view of this, Chakirs believes that the authorities may implement stricter restrictions at that time.
(Liang Manyu)