Social Issues

A day after Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced a full lockdown in the broader Athens region to contain a resurgence in coronavirus cases and ease pressure on the National Health System, Deputy Minister for Civil Protection Nikos Hardalias provided more details about the measures on Wednesday.

Anti-Greek sentiment is pervasive among nationalists in Turkey and has been exacerbated by political and military tensions between the two neighbours

A day after Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced a full lockdown in the broader Athens region to contain a resurgence in coronavirus cases and ease pressure on the National Health System, Deputy Minister for Civil Protection Nikos Hardalias provided more details about the measures on Wednesday.

Despite warnings from authorities for the public to follow virus-related measures, and a recent surge in the daily COVID-19 cases in Turkey, people are relentlessly continuing to violate curfews and other rules.

A woman enjoys a sunbath as a man wearing a protective face mask to curb the spread of coronavirus leaves a beach of Glyfada suburb, south of Athens, Saturday.

The Health Ministry's committee of experts on the pandemic appeared likely to advise the government to impose a 6 p.m. traffic curfew in the region of Attica for the weekends, although the proposal is not backed by all the members of the committee.

Citizen Protection Minister Mihalis Chrysohoidis said that the government has not ruled out the possibility of an earlier curfew in Greece as a measure to stop the recent spike in new infections.

Asked on Wednesday if authorities are considering stopping all traffic at 6 p.m. instead of the current 9 p.m., the minister said "it is something we will see."

He had nominated Black Lives Matter “for their struggle against racism and racially motivated violence”

For a long time, the couple, who spoke on condition their surnames were not published, would sleep on the outskirts of the city and take public transport into the centre each day for food and supplies.

Turkey imposed another weekend curfew late on Jan. 29 as part of measures to stem the spread the novel coronavirus.

The weekend-long curfew in the country began on Friday at 9:00 p.m. local time (1800GMT) and will end on Monday 5:00 a.m. local time (0200GMT).