NEWS:
PUBLIC HEALTH MEASURES GREECE
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Editorial Ta Nea: Behaviours
We see irresponsible behaviours and an attitude that the virus is no longer with us, even though there is a very high number of infections, deaths, and intubations in the sorely tested and exhausted NHS.
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Editorial Ta Nea: The last mile
The vaccination rollout must be expedited because that is necessary in order to build a wall of defence and immunity without which the National Health System cannot endure.
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Government takes first, cautious steps toward opening to foreign tourists
Tourism, which generates a fifth of Greece’s GDP and one in five jobs, is vital for an economy which had climbed out of a decade-long slump only to slip back due to the pandemic.
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Editorial To Vima: Sterile rivalries
Once again at a critical juncture in the life of our nation the prevailing environment is one of sterile political rivalries and irrational and often untimely demands.
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Editorial Ta Nea: Keys
We hold the keys to our freedom in our own hands. The decisions we make every day, combined with the slow but steady vaccination rollout, is the decisive factor in managing the pandemic.
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Editorial Ta Nea: Sisyphus
The example of Portugal and the threat of a third wave are very much with us and jeopardise the enormous efforts made by societies so far.
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Editorial To Vima: No Age Discrimination in coronavirus spread
Greece’s National Public Health Organization (EODY) data show there are even 18-year old patients suffering from COVID-19 who are intubated in hospital ICUs.
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Editorial Ta Nea: The cost
Moreover, it is unacceptable that parties and individuals make incredibly far-fetched accusations about the alleged existence of a junta, or about a derailment of democracy
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Editorial Ta Nea: Lives must be saved
The insistence of certain political forces that 17 November commemorative gatherings and marches should take place imperils public health.
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Editorial Ta Nea: Behaviours
There is an urgent need to strictly enforce the lockdown. This is not based on an assumption of the government but rather on the scientific facts presented by virologists.
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Editorial To Vima: In defence of reason
With the images of crowding and laxity in summer vacation resorts experts had no doubt either about the advent of a second wave or about the results of such reckless behaviour.
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Editorial To Vima: Public health measures needed, but which measures?
According to the proponents of the hard line if current measures prove inadequate there is a greater likelihood of a derailment of the situation with a higher chance of a general lockdown
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Editorial To Vima: The end of illusions
The dilemma “economy or public health” has returned to the forefront in a dramatic fashion as not only did the “invisible enemy” not retreat over the summer but rather it returned with even greater force
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Editorial Ta Nea: Time
Fragile societies such as Greece’s which remained standing after the first coronavirus wave must now shield themselves against an onslaught of recession and unemployment.
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Editorial To Vima: Courage, discipline will bring victory in battle
The government advisory scientific panel based on the data, new knowledge, and the deep conviction that the disease is receding approved the gradual lifting of the pandemic lockdown.
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Editorial To Vima: The war on the economic front
The economic toll arising from the pandemic will be higher for Greece than for other EU countries because it relies so heavily on tourism and services more generally as well as on transport and consumption.
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Editorial Ta Nea: Self-restraint
After all, at Easter we celebrate the victory of life over death and today we are struggling against a virus which, alas, for some of our fellow human beings is deadly.
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Editorial Ta Nea: Rallying cry
Society must comprehend the critical nature of the challenge which it faces and contribute all its means and weapons to the effort to battle the pandemic.
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Editorial Ta Nea: Messages
Ta Nea’s editorials have often stressed of late the dangers that will emerge if citizens do not rise to the occasion and exhibit a sense of personal responsibility in dealing with COVID-19.
