Dealing with the novel coronavirus pandemic with horizontal measures as a model will likely not be used in the future again on the likelihood of a resurgence, Civil Protection Deputy Minister for Crisis Management Nikos Hardalias said at Delphi Economic Forum on Wednesday, ANA reports.
That first stage of across-the-board lockdown measures and the gradual shutting down of the market Greece took in March will be replaced by actions primarily targeted at the local level, or a particular theme, Hardalias noted. “We are trying hard to prevent problems, and preparing to avoid having issues, but if something crops up our criteria will clearly and primarily be local or thematic,” he explained.
“Greece was called upon to crate – in uncharted territory – structures that had to become permanent, particularly in terms of civil protection since we had challenges in the past, but none like that of COVID-19,” the minister said. “We had to deal with influenza at one end and Ebola at the other, but COVID-19 has unique features and its spatial involvement was global – it was something, in other words, that nobody expected would operate as it did.”
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