Mitsotakis: 'We are at war,' with an invisible but not invincible enemy

In a televised address to the nation on Tuesday on the spread of the coronavirus, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis echoed French President Emmanuel Macron, declaring that "we are at war." 

"The enemy is invisible but not invincible," he said. "If we curb the spread of the virus, we give time to the health system to address urgent cases," he added, noting that, "our first priority is to save lives."

The capital's NIMTS hospital will be turned into a center for the treatment of coronavirus patients, he said, adding that, with the help of private clinics, 1,900 additional hospital beds will be availble for patients afflicted with the virus.

"Our first concern are people and public health," he said. "That is way we imposed, earlier than other European countries, unprecedented measures for peacetime." He said the state has three key goals: curbing the spread of...

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