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Professor Sotiris Tsiodras, the health ministry’s spokesman, said that the relative flattening of the curve of the spread of the virus in Greece is cause for guarded optimism.

Health ministry spokesman Sotiris Tsiodras this afternoon estimated that the actual number of Covid-19 infections in Greece is between 8,000 and 10,000 based on mathematical models.

'Greece can tackle the pandemic in a timely and effective manner so that the damage to the economy, which will be significant, can be reversed, " the finance minister said.

The much-touted normalcy to which Greek society was supposed to return has been postponed indefinitely or at least for enough time to deal a new, severe blow to the economy and the labour market.

The state must at once protect human lives and manage the economic repercussions from a general lockdown which if it turns out to be protracted can plunge the economy into a new debt crisis

This is perhaps the ultimate step that an organised democratic state can take and it must be done in a timely manner in order for it not to be taken in vain because right now time is not counted in days but rather in hours.

The current public health crisis is different in nature than the economic crisis that Greece has already suffered, yet the memory of it is too fresh to repeat the same mistakes.

Professor Sotiris Tsiodras almost broke down while revealing that a colleague sent him a message in which he essentially questioned why there is such a fuss over saving the elderly.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis discussed the issue at length today in a telephone conversation with Elisa Ferreira, the Commissioner for Cohesion and Reforms.

Greece’s partners, including those most dedicated to fiscal discipline, are beginning to comprehend that austerity is not a cure-all.The pandemic requires a Keynesian approach to managing the economy.

'Stay home. Do not travel or go to the villages because you will bring death to the provinces. Maintain discipline for as long as it takes. Do not end up like Italy!' a Greek doctor in Parma warned her compatriots.

The closures ordered by the government - which pertain to seasonal tourist facilities that have not opened yet – aside from hotels covers camping facilities, youth hostels, condohotels, and furnished villas and homes.

A series of measures announced by the government are designed to prevent the collapse of the economy and a steep rise in unemployment.

A total of 45,076 people applied for nursing-related positions, part of the government's hirings for the coronavirus pandemic, according to regional health service data on Thursday.

At a time when Europe is being racked by a pandemic and multi-nationals are announcing the suspension of part of their activity it cannot afford to leave millions of workers to their own devices.

The five American technological tech giants – Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Apple should dig deep into their pockets and exhibit palpable solidarity with their global audience.

Her government has advised the country’s 16 regions to shut schools and daycare facilities until the end of the Easter holiday. Shops, except for grocery stores, bakeries, pharmacies banks and other essential businesses have been shut.

President Sakellaropoulou's message to Turkey is that it has exploited refugees and has adressed Greece with unseemly language, which undermines the mores of international relations and any sense of diplomacy.

Labour Minister Yannis Vroutsis told Mega television that the data on the state’s ERGANI labour tracking system for the first 15 days of March are “horrifying”. There have been 30,000 layoffs in that period.

With few exceptions the entire business world will suffer severe trials and will have to build new defences and strategies in order to survive the crisis.