“We can disagree on the level of political proposals but it is not possible to disagree on the facts, about the real picture that prevails today in our country and over what has happened in the last 10 months,” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced on Friday, opening the debate in Parliament on the course of the pandemic in Greece.
“Today, according to the ECDC map, the only two countries that are not marked red and have some green areas are Greece and Finland,” the prime minister noted, referring to the data and showing specific diagrams. “The sharp increase in hospitalizations, which started in early November, was dramatic and peaked in early December, while it is now declining,” he said, adding: “Our country is in 21st place, the 5th with the fewest deaths from the coronavirus among European countries.”
“The successful treatment of the second wave is due above all to our health professionals,” Mitsotakis underlined and noted that “this de-escalation in the course of the epidemic is due to the fact that, during the holidays, with a few exceptions, Greek society showed discipline in following the recommendations of the experts. It seems that we cleared the hurdle of the Christmas and New Year periods without much turmoil. It is also due to the political decision to impose a stricter lockdown in the last two weeks.”
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