Wearing masks is obligatory in all indoor public spaces throughout August, the government announced on Friday, introducing new strict measures following a spike this week of new cases nationwide, ANA reports.
In addition, restrictions were imposed on visits to retirement homes, facilities for vulnerable people, refugee centers and hospitals (to August 15), excepting people accompanying patients, while ceremonies for life events such as baptisms, marriages, and funerals are restricted to 100 people each (Aug. 3-15), keeping social distancing.
This coming week in particular (August 3 to 8), nightclubs, bars, live-music venues, bar-restaurants, cafes, and such may only allow seated clients, not standing-room-only. Recommended social distances must be observed at beaches, and public and private boats, throughout the month of August, while all open-air events, including saints’ festivals, are banned until August 31.
Furthermore, the suspension of air and land connections with Turkey, Albania, and North Macedonia is extended to August 15. Also extended to August 15 are the requirements for visitors who enter Greece via Promahonas border station to have tested negatively over the last 72 hours prior to entry, and the same is true for air passengers from Bulgaria, Romania, and the United Arab Emirates.
Anti-coronavirus curfews and group exodus restrictions at all refugee accommodation facilities and hotspots nationwide are extended to August 31, according to a joint ministerial decision on Friday.
Effective since March 23, the curfews restrict to and from movement from facilities to the hours between 07:00 and 21:00, with a maximum 150 refugees allowed to leave per hour, and that in groups of no more than 10 people.
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