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Daily announcements of the number of deaths of covid-19 patients have not been met with the sadness, concern, and anxiety that one would expect given the extent of the tragedy.

Greek youth must wage a difficult battle with their own nature in order to abide by strict public health restricions to protect their own lives and those of their loved ones.

Now almost every family can share a tragic coronavirus story. Public hospitals are in a tragic situation. Doctors and nurses confess that they have reached the point of exhaustion.

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It will take months until the vaccines and the new medicines are very widely distributed and no one can predict what will happen in the world until then.

Undoubtedly the police obviously on orders from the leadership of the Public Ministry overreacted in many cases and triggered the justified outrage of citizens.

The conservative New Democracy government of Kyriakos Mitsotakis took a controversial decision to ban not only the massive annual protest march but also any gathering of over four individuals nationwide.

the annual commemoration of the 17 November, 1973, uprising against the Greek junta this year coincides with the peak of the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Undoubtedly the hospitals of Thessaloniki and Larissa are being sorely tested, are unable to handle the mounting caseload and are sending patients to other hospitals

The opposition parties expressed their disagreements over the government’s management of the crisis both before and during the second wave of the pandemic.

The government must forge the broadest possible consensus and understanding so as to make sure that the country will be able to weather the storm with the least possible losses.

Mitsotakis spoke about the need to coordinate the distribution of vaccines and the technical specifications required so that populations can be vaccinated swiftly.

Despite a vaccine in order to avert a flare up of the epidemic we shall have to comply with protective measures as we will have to learn to live with COVID-19 for a much longer time.

“But the bottom line is, as a vaccine it’s more than 90% effective, which is extraordinary,” top U.S. infectious diseases expert Dr. Anthony Fauci told CNN.

The fact that the number of new cases appeared to be under control created the false impression that the virus was retreating and that its transmission had been checked.

Unfortunately, those who were labeled doomsday harbingers because they warned of the coming danger of a second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic were vindicated.

The finance minister said that the country’s cash reverses, totaling 37.5 billion euros, must be used prudently as the country must maintain adequate reserves at least through spring.

'I want to show that the decisions are guided by the epidemiological data...the scientific data should not be an object of controversy,' the PM said in announcing the lockdown.

Many believe the small number of cases in Greece due to the first wave lockdown cultivated a sense of complacency in the youth, who believed COVID-19 was confined to the elderly.

Virology Professor Gkikas Magiorkinis said it is too early to tell if Attica will reach Thessaloniki's record transmission rate as stricter measures just came into effect in Attica.