Health expert Sotiris Tsiodras most popular Greek, poll finds

Greece's chief adviser and spokesman for the coronavirus epidemic is the most popular person in Greece right now, a recent poll has shown.

Conducted by Marc for Alpha TV and published on Wednesday, the poll found that 94.6 percent of respondents have a positive or quite positive view of the softly spoken infectious disease physician and professor Sotiris Tsiodras, whose daily televised updates are watched by most Greeks.

The second most popular person in Greece right now, with 84.3 percent, is the deputy minister for civil protection, Nikos Hardalias, who also appears in the daily 6 p.m. briefings on the course of the pandemic, which 66.7 percent of respondents said they tune into regularly.

The government's admonitions against violating social distancing and self-isolation measures during the upcoming Easter holiday also appear to be working, as 91.6 percent...