CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC

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Editorial Ta Nea: Information campaign

Classes are being taught normally at private schools but at 700 state schools which have been occupied students have been held back.

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Editorial To Vima: New weapons needed to battle the asymmetric threat

There is an urgent need for measures that can halt this sudden plunge in of economies into the abyss, protect the weak and vulnerable, and prepare the way for a recovery.

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PM warnns of urgent need to enforce public health measures, says only alternative a new lockdown

'I have proven that I do not hesitate to swiftly make difficult decisions but in order to stem the new wave of the pandemic the state, scientists, and citizens cooperate," Mitsotakis declared.

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Editorial Ta Nea: Gain

One of the tools in battling the pandemic was and is the increase in the number of ICU beds designated exclusively for the treatment of Covid-19 patients.

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Editorial To Vima: Delicate balances

The government must act very quickly to bolster the health system as aside from SARS-CoV-2 the winter will bring other healthcare challenges as well.

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Editorial Ta Nea: The message

The PM pledged to take all necessary measures to protect workers and employees who are most threatened by the impact of the uncertainty and the huge economic tempest triggered by the pandemic.

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Editorial: Public health threat

The image of a woman protester stomping maniacally on surgical masks to the sound of shouted slogans against masks in schools is ridiculous but above all it is dangerous.

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Editorial To Vima: The March scenario

Greece and governments all over the world hope that the vaccine will help manage the public health crisis and permit a gradual normalisation of social and economic life.

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Greek tourism confederation says European Commission plan can help put the sector on track

The resumption of flights, inter-country agreements to open borders, the support of employment, and the use of liquidity tools will shape the tourism season, said Yiannis Retsos, the president of the Greek Tourism Confederation (SETE).

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Editorial Ta Nea: Pride and joy

Parties are vying over which policies are best to implement and over the percentage or amount of increase in state spending on strengthening the Greek NHS.

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Editorial Ta Nea: Cogwheels

This should be the start of broader reforms upon which one can rebuild the relationship between citizens and the state.

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Editorial Ta Nea: Recipes

Under no circumstances should the government allow even a suspicion that it will seek to serve partisan special interests or social and professional groups that are pro-government.

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Editorial To Vima: They took the first step

European leaders agreed to create a common “recovery fund” that will have enough money to address the consequences of the pandemic in Europe

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Editorial Ta Nea: Dysfunctions

Was it necessary for the balance of oil supply and demand to become so skewed in order to reduce the price for the highly over-taxed Greek consumer?

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Editorial Ta Nea: Explaining

Donald Trump downplayed the pandemic and now is watching his fellow citizens who fell victim to coronavirus being buried in mass graves.

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A response to the corona crisis in Europe based on solidarity

We therefore propose that we work together quickly to ensure sufficient liquidity in all European Union countries, so that jobs do not depend on the whims of speculators.

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More types of busineses to be included in economic stimulus package

With the pandemic likely to decimate Greek tourism, which is widely viewed as the engine of the economy, the tourism ministry will launch an intensive campaign to attract foreign tourists to Greece,

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Editorial Ta Nea: Action

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.

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Editorial: Sort things out now!

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

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Government orders seasonal hotels, tourist facilities to remain closed through 30 April

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.

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Editorial To Vima: We must save people and support businesses

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.

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Sakellaropoulou encourages discipline, solidarity, optimism in battling Coronavirus

'I stand by your side just as I stand beside all those who are in the frontline of this battle: mainly doctors and nurses, security forces and Civil Protection authorities, pharmacists, employees at food stores and in the entire supply chain who keep working so that we all can obtain necessary goods.'

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Editorial To Vima: Slingshot in lieu of a bazooka

It is now clear that sporadic, piecemeal measures to handle the crisis are akin to offering an aspirin and not effective treatment to the deeply ailing economy.

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Editorial To Vima: Coordinated international effort

G20 finance ministers and central bank governors who met in Riyadh instead of attempting to forge a common effort to manage the coronavirus crisis simply issued platitudinous observations. In the final communiqué of the meeting, which China did not attend, officials merely articulated their commitment to bolster international monitoring of how the epidemic is evolving. Naturally that message did not allay the fears of investors. Yesterday was a “black Monday” for stock markets on both sides of the Atlantic and the Greek bourse collapsed without resistance. The World Health Organisation (WHO) expressed heightened concerns about the sudden rise in incidence and warned about a prospective pandemic. The rapid spread of the coronavirus is undoubtedly linked to the constantly increasing mobility of people and the inter-dependence between countries. The dependencies resulting from globalisation were discussed in Riyadh but of course the participants came up with no answers. In our globalised world major problems require global coordination. The powerful of our planet have a duty to step up their efforts to confront the threat and adopt a unified action plan