At the start of the coronavirus pandemic, Greece closed its border to all travel earlier than other countries, thus avoiding the full effect of the pandemic’s first wave, noted Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis at the online conference “Beyond the Pandemic: A Radical New Approach to Health Security”, held on Tuesday.
But avoiding the impact of the second outbreak was not possible, he added. Yet the government did invest in its national health system, and fared better than richer countries, he underlined.
Greece also had a plan for the reopening of its tourism safely, with the added tool of the self-diagnostic tests, and the Covid-19 digital vaccination certificate, which was a “Greek proposal”, as the premier noted.
At the start of the coronavirus pandemic, Greece closed its border to all travel earlier than other countries, thus avoiding the full effect of the pandemic’s first wave, noted Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis at the online conference “Beyond the Pandemic: A Radical New Approach to Health Security”
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