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By AFP Published: Apr 08, 2021 04:03 PM
An outdoor restaurant in Santorini Island in Greece Photo: AFPRetail shops across Greece, except for three regions with heavy epidemiological loads, reopened their doors to customers on Monday, after almost three months of closure due to a COVID-19 pandemic lockdown.
Shop owners in Athens had mixed feelings of optimism and pessimism towards the reopening of their business, as quarantine continues, and the number of infections remains high.
The image was familiar as they once reopened for business for a few weeks before the Christmas and New Year holidays in 2020. In the spring of 2020, they remained shut for several weeks during the first lockdown.