Decision on travel between regional units at Easter will be taken short before the Holy Week, state minister Giorgos Gerapetritis said on Thursday. Speaking to Thema FM, he praised the “new weapons against the pandemic, the vaccinations and the self test.”
Regarding the reopening of retail and inter-municipality movement at the weekend, he said “I believe that people are calmer. To be outside is not bad. On the contrary, now that the weather has improved we want the people to be free to move and spread out in order to avoid major congestion and not to crowd together in houses and bars.”
He probably wanted to say “outside bars.”
Asked if any further major decisions for the lifting of the restrictions are postponed until after the Easter holidays, the minister said that “at this moment, there does not appear to be anything that could open before Easter. We clearly have a lot of time before Easter, we have three weeks to see what else there might be. The opening of primary and high schools as well as the opening of restaurants and similar businesses is postponed until after Easter.”
Allowing movement between regions during the Easter holidays was one possibility, Gerapetritis said, but this decision will be taken shortly before Holy Week, based on the epidemiological data and the recommendations by the experts.
the Holy Greek Orthodox Easter is on May 2, 2021.
I suppose that anyone with a bit of common sense realizes that we are heading for a major catastrophe before the end of the summer. Where are we going to treat the increasing flow of patients? How will the small businesses survive another winter-long hard lockdown from October 2021 to the spring of 2022? This is insanity.
Time to realize that what has been tried has failed, and to implement a totally different health policy following the example of nations that dealt with the epidemic with success: South Korea (population 51 million, only 1700 deaths), Finland (population 5,5 million, only 800 deaths), Senegal (population 16 million, only 1000 deaths), Norway (population 5,4 million, only 680 deaths), Cuba (population 11 million, only 400 deaths), Haiti (population 11,5 million and only 250 deaths), Chad (population 16 million and only 160 deaths)… etc. Some of these examples are among the poorest nations in the world, and don’t even have access to any vaccine.
We have to learn from them, not from the failed examples of Western Europe and the U.S.
vitamin d, fresh air, sunshine, and a healthy psychology not tyrannized by an endless cmpaign of fear and terror from the media machine and government talking heads. People able to work , move about, freely interact with each other like human beings. These things are the answer. but will the politicians in the west allow it? oh no, theyve gotten a taste of ’emergency powers’ and they show no sign of inclination to let go of any of it now.
Agreed.
Is this decision for tourists or only Greek residents?
Hear-hear.
Exactly. S. KOREA didn’t have lockdown just 14days isolated quarantine for anybody entering the country even with a negative result of the test.
You’re right Francesco. Unfortunately, common sense isn’t that common, as we can see from the response to your post. Maybe, that’s exactly what they did in Australia where I’m from and they’re all living a ‘normal life’.
KTG and the other minions – You don’t like what someone says so you don’t publish their comments? Someone exposes the ignorance in this comment thread and it bothers you. So their comments don’t go up. Noted.
Generally speaking: KTG doesn’t have the resources to keep moderating long comments that unfold the whole covid-developement incl data about country X or Y or comments repeating the same approach again and again. Sorry, guys, but this is not a forum here.