Editorial: The dynamic of post COVID-19 events

Facts are facts and they cannot be disputed any way you look at them. Right now they are glaringly clear and they reveal the course of the COVID-19 epidemic in Greece.

There can be no doubt any longer that the epidemic is in the process of being checked and that this is in large measure due to the much faster pace of the vaccine rollout now.

As long as the vaccination programme continues to proceed smoothly - without inhibitions or reservations, with the current pace of over 100,000 vaccinations daily, and with citizens continuing to take personal protective measures - the number of new COVID-19 cases, the number of hospitalisations and intubations, and the number of deaths will continue to decline.

All the data from hospitals and public health authorities indicate that right now Greece appears to be gradually transcending the unprecedented threat of COVID-19, which has already taken a heavy toll.

By all appearances, our country will be able to achieve the much-desired wall of immunity by the end of June, and that will gradually bring a normalisation of social and economic life.

That will allow us to leave behind the damage of the winter pandemic and the protracted period of anxiety and to expect a summer of renewed creativity, reorganisation and reconstruction.

The country will be able to recover even as the case load of hospitals declines and the public health community will be freed of the burden of caring for everyone. We shall be able to safely walk the streets, work, enjoy activities, and carry on with our lives without burdensome restrictions.

Most notably, checking the epidemic will result in a great and indisputable opportunity for Greece and its citizens.

Greece will benefit from a very robust EU pandemic...