China News Service, March 9. According to Greece's "China-Greece Times" report, on the evening of March 8 local time, the National Public Health Organization of Greece announced that in the past 24 hours, Greece added 21,121 new confirmed cases of the new crown, and the cumulative number of confirmed cases increased to 2,538,168. ; 54 new deaths, a total of 26,303 deaths.
Greek experts are considering relaxing the requirement to wear masks indoors.
According to reports, after Greece lifted the mask requirement for public outdoor areas on March 5, local time, health authorities are about to start discussing under what conditions they can begin to relax the measures for wearing masks in indoor places.
Paraskevis, professor of epidemiology and preventive medicine at the University of Athens, said: "We are now in a period of easing of the pandemic in terms of the number of cases, in terms of pressure on the national health system, capacity of hospital beds, severe illness and death. is also like this."
However, it is unlikely that the mask-wearing rule will be lifted anytime soon on public transport or in supermarkets, which can be very crowded and often poorly ventilated.
It is now more likely that workplace measures will be relaxed, and vaccinated employees will be able to work without masks as long as office windows are open for ventilation.
(Zhang Jiaxiang Yu Dan)