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Greek infectious diseases experts say that will hopefully occur by late May, if public health measures are thoroughly enforced and succeed in limiting the spread.

Interest rates remained unchanged and investors foreclosed a 10-basis point drop, while new quantitative easing (QE) measures were deemed insufficient.

Sakellaropoulou said that the country’s objective is "to ward off new dangers, to prevent new threats without stopping the struggle for social and economic reconstruction and without discounts in the functioning of democratic government and the rule of law,

There are 10 cases the origin of which cannot be traced and another 15 cases that are still being examined for confirmation. Thirty-four of the patients are in hospital and three in Intensive Care Units.

In order to stem the spread of the coronavirus one needs strict, comprehensive, and religiously enforced restrictive measures that will allow only the absolutely necessary movement of citizens.

The government will do its best to "ensure that the serious cases of coronavirus and few and far between," PM Mitsotakis said.

Maritime Affairs Minister Giannis Plakiotakis spoke of deliberately dangerous manoeuvres in Greek territorial waters of the Turkish Coast Guard vessel which hit the Greek patrol boat.

New measures intended to limit the further spread of the epidemic in coordination and cooperation with the rest of Europe will be announced today.

In a contemporary, rationally organised society epidemiologists and other expert scientists – and not politicians or the Church - decide what measures will be implemented in an epidemic.

Kikilias said school closures are a preventive measure designed to limit the spread of the virus to the community and that the state wants to support working parents and businesses harmed by the measure.

One of the particularities of the current crisis as compared to the great fiscal crisis is that the virus harms both supply and demand. It leads to the closure of factories, breaks supply chains, and limits consumer consumption.

'The recent virus has ‘visited’ me and I felt obliged to let the public know.I feel good as I take all the necessary measures and I follow the doctors’ instructions,' said the leader of Olympiacos FC.

Erdogan’s court was rife with scandals. He gave himself a 1mn dollar monthly salary, his assets were said to be worth nearly one billion dollars, and he provoked everyone.

His first years in power focused on a recovery of the Turkish economy and he systematically promoted the mass integration (mainly through Islamic networks) in the production process of marginalised segments of society.

Erdogan’s court was rife with scandals. He gave himself a 1mn dollar monthly salary, his assets were said to be worth nearly one billion dollars, and he provoked everyone.

Even if the EU does decide to offer more money, it’s not clear it will be sufficient to assuage Turkey or be the kind of support that Ankara, which is simultaneously involved in conflicts in Syria and Libya, really wants.

Families started bonfires as the sound of crying babies blended with the muezzin’s call to prayer blasting from a towering white mosque.

It is quite likely that Turkey will intensify its provocative behaviour and we must thus be prepared for all possible eventualities.

If a patient disregards the instructions of scientists and fails to report a trip to a high-risk country that constitutes criminal negligence.

Infectious Diseases Professor Sotiris Tsiodras sternly advised journalists not to focus on the number of cases and that it is not particularly significant where  individuals were infected  as in the coming weeks a significant rise in the incidence and spread of the virus is a given.