Editorial: A new national plan

It has been nearly one year since the COVID-19 pandemic hit Greece with huge repercussions, many not even calculated yet.

Given the evolution of the pandemic everyone knows that we shall not be freed anytime soon from this multi-faceted and complex public health crisis, which has a catalytic impact on the body of society and the economy, even as it affects the entire world and changes almost everything around us.

By all appearances, performance in the first two quarters of the year but also in 2021 overall will be determined by the intensity and depth of the pandemic, by the prospect of a new lockdown, and by the effort to expedite the vaccination process in order to stem its transmission.

Epidemiologists, doctors, and other scientists have not hidden the fact that the virus will continue to be transmitted in waves all over the world, threatening to claim the lives of many and creating obstacles to free movement, trips, and economic activity in general.

In brief, for a long time still everything will be occurring under the weight of the development and multiple repercussions of the public health crisis. Some believe these pressures will affect the social and economic life of the planet through 2024.

In any event, the global and Greek economies will for long be bound and trapped and will not be able to develop with any certainty plans and efforts toward a speedy recovery of embattled social and economic activities.

The public health risk will remain strong and sufficient to suspend decisions and delay choices that could create expectations of a quick recovery of suffering social and economic activities.

One might argue for good reason that the wave of expectations that was created recently for 2021 can only be confirmed...

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