Greek government spokesperson Stelios Petsas announced on the course of the pandemic that “the country is carefully continuing its course to the new normality. A month after the lifting of the lockdown, the epidemiological picture remains good. According to the latest figures, the RO number is lower than it was when we decided to lift the lockdown. Nonetheless, nobody should be complacent and obviously not the government”.
Petsas said that “the virus is here and is lurking and we know that if we relax we will pay for it”.
He said that the government was now focusing on the possibility of imported cases from the moment that the country opens its doors to tourism and on possible local clusters, whether these concern a region, a neighbourhood, an island, a school or an area. “We are intensifying inspections everywhere and preparing for everything,” he pointed out.
On Saturday the Greek prime minister will visit the island of Santorini ahead of the reopening of tourism in Greece.
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