Emergency hotline to be ready by year end, says minister

The European emergency number 112, which could have contributed to timely evacuations ahead of the deadly storms that pummeled Halkidiki on Wednesday night, will be up and running at the end of 2019, Digital Governance Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis announced Friday, during a visit to the operation center of the General Secretariat of Civil Protection.

"The system 112 is innovative, it will be available in its entirety at the end of the year. Today we have checked that its core infrastructure is working. Our main job now is that this can work on all devices. This also requires actions from us. You will see them soon. There is no time for delays," he said.
During the visit, officials tested the system by sending mock emergency messages via mobile networks.

The General Secretariat for Civil Protection and regional authorities in northern Greece had been put on alert...

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