Announcing zero deaths from Covid-19 in the 24 hours to Wednesday evening, infectious diseases professor Sotiris Tsiodras said it is “a great relief for us to not be talking about deaths, but about lives being saved instead,” ANA reported.
Speaking at the daily televised briefing, the Health Ministry’s coronavirus spokesman said that the government’s timely preventive and restrictive measures reduced the spread of the virus in the community by a projected 80%.
The infectious diseases specialist expressed the country’s “tremendous success” in the containment of Covid-19, and insisted that “Greece must gradually reopen.” He warned nevertheless that the disease “will never be entirely obliterated,” and that restrictive measures would be tailored at local level if an infection outbreak occurred again in some parts of the country.
In about 7 or 15 days health authorities will be able to assess the virus’ dispersal in the community “with great certainty”, and from there continue to assess the situation but on a weekly or biweekly basis. Laboratory testing at regular intervals will also inform decisions regarding the cautious and gradual lifting of measures, he said, pointing out that gradually the early and certain diagnosis and the understanding of the virus’ behavior will improve.
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