Last-ditch bid to avert Attica lockdown

As the upward trend in coronavirus infections continues, with the majority of cases concentrated in Attica, the government on Friday announced a raft of new restrictions for the greater Athens area in a bid to contain the outbreak and avert the possible need for a new lockdown. 

During a teleconference on the course of the pandemic with government and health officials on Friday, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said that new regulations were being imposed to avoid the prospect of measures that would have a heavy economic impact, which neither Greece's economy nor society are in a position to bear. The important thing is that there is compliance, he said. "If we enforce the measures we have taken, I have no doubt that things will go well." 

Meanwhile the National Organization for Public Health (EODY) on Friday announced 339 new infections, 164 of which were recorded...