Mitsotakis briefs opposition leaders Tsipras, Gennimata on developments with coronavirus

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis held an e-meeting with SYRIZA's main opposition leader Alexis Tsipras on Monday evening, and later with Movement for Change (KINAL) leader Fofi Gennimata, to brief them on the developments concerning the coronavirus outbreak in Greece.

In the first of the PM's meetings using the e-Presence platform, both he and Tsipras stressed the importance of staying at home and restricting movements outside it especially in transportation and in crowding. The daily reminder by state authorities, they said, was one of the most rudimentary of protection measures against the new virus.

On his side, Tsipras put forward his proposals to strengthen the public health system but also to tackle the effects of what he called "the economic epidemic," urging the prime minister not to hesitate to make use of the 35-billion-euro cash buffer that the previous...