Applications for workers’ handout streaming in

Workers showed massive interest in recording their data on the online platform for the 800-euro handout at supportemployees.yeka.gr.

The platform opened at midnight Tuesday and by 11 a.m. on Wednesday 10,000 workers had already filed their personal data. By the afternoon that number had reached 37,000, and Labor Ministry officials noted that the momentum was enormous, with declarations from employees hoping to receive the compensation arriving at a rate of 100 per minute.

Workers eligible for the handout are those who are employed at enterprises that were shuttered on government orders as well as those who work in sectors severely affected by the coronavirus epidemic, according to their activity code number (KAD).

The former category were told they should submit their applications based on the last digit of their tax registration numbers (AFMs) between April 1...