Greece announced on Monday that is considering to resume flights with the U.S. by the end of July and under the precondition that tourists will show a “negative” COVID-19 test, according to greekreporter.com.
The decision was made at a meeting to review the national plan for protection against the coronavirus organized earlier on Monday, chaired by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
Government spokesman Stelios Petsas announced that there is consideration to resuming flights to/from other non-EU countries.
He also confirmed that Greece will resume direct flights to/from UK on July 15 and announced it will resume direct flights to/from Sweden on July 22, 2020.
Greece will also step up testing for Covid-19 at the land borders, especially at Promachonas and Albania. “The government is constantly monitoring developments, talking to the experts, and taking any measures that are necessary,” Petsas noted.
From July 1 to July 11, a total of 67,797 tests were carried out at the country’s gates with 218 (0.35%) of them be “positive”. Confirmed cases at Promachonas are four times more than at Athens international airport, for example, Petsas added.
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