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New Year’s Eve without music as Greece’s new restrictions start on Dec 30

Greece ‘s Health Minister Thanos Plevris announced on Wednesday more restrictions in restaurants and entertainment venues and New Year’s Eve parties without music. Furthermore, the Minister added that the measures against Covid-19 that were scheduled to be implemented from January 3 will go into force tomorrow, Thursday, December 30.

The Minister added that It is also forbidden to hold an event – party in a public or private place. Aim is to avoid the transfer of entertainment from the restaurant to other places.

Measures into force at 6:00 a.m. Thursday, Dec 30:

  • Restaurants, cafes and bars will close at midnight. Exception is on New Year’s Eve where they will close a 2 o’ clock in the morning yet without music.
  • Music is banned
  • Standing customers are not allowed
  • Maximum 6 persons at a table will be seated.

All the other restrictions and measures that go into effect earlier than Jan 3, that is on Dec 30, are:

Mandatory Masks: KN95 masks or double surgical or double fabric mask in supermarkets, public transport means; to be wore also by restaurants and catering facilities staff, and where there is crowding.

Teleworking by 50% in private and public sectors and rolling working hours.

Sports stadiums: spectators allowed at 10% of capacity and maximum 1,000 people

Visitors to nursery homes and hospitals: only with PCR test of 48 hours

No visits by pharma representatives to hospitals

The measures are in force until January 15, 2022, while their extension maybe considered depending on the epidemiological situation in Greece.

Minister Plevris said that based on recent infections data, the Omicron variant is prevailing and that there are serious hospitalizations also in the ICUs, however, he did not elaborate with data.
He called on citizens to get vaccinated and to do testing before and after the festive gatherings.
The Health Ministry has yet to clarify recommendations for home gatherings on New Year’s Eve.
The number of daily infections has been breaking one record after the other since Monday, with the peak of 21,657 cases in 24 hours on Tuesday. According to latest information early Wednesday afternoon infection cases could be around 30,000 today.

14 COMMENTS

  1. Just look at the statistics. Yes, government officials! Just keep failing with all your Coivd19 measures like you have been doing for the last two years. After all it’s not your money, or your lives, right?

    • Carl, you say government is failing but what should they do?? Give us your solutions, could be interesting! It is so easy to say every measure is wrong but come up with something better then!!!!

      • 1. Authorities should get off Big Pharma’s bribe schemes. Look at Fauci.
        2. Has anybody talked of proven cures like Hydroxychloroquine, Ivermectin and
        others. They are too inexpensive and off patent. No, just vaccines? Now why
        could that be, I wonder?
        3. Has any so-called “authority” talked about prevention through vitamins D, C,
        quercetin, zinc, selenium, etc. No. Obviously there is no money in that. Look
        at the statistics in many African countries, in Uttar Pradesh in India, in certain
        areas of Mexico.
        4. Have lockdowns in the last two years (!) had any real effect? More of the
        same? People aren’t programmable.

        • Hydroxychloroquine, Ivermectin and
          others. have NOT been proven, in fact all tests showed that they need further studies, stop telling lies, ALso All the Major health bodies such as CDC Britsh medical boards have said NOT to use Hydroxychloroquine, Ivermectin to use to treat COVID.

          Covid rates in African Countries are high, look at south Africa where it has one of the highest in the whole of Africa, the same place where Omricon virus broke out. People like you only post conspiracy crap and not scientifically proven remedies!

    • Carl, it’s not the government that’s spreading this virus it’s the general public! It’s easy to blame the government but no matter what measures have been put into place if the public don’t do as is needed this virus will continue to spread. The Omicron is nothing more than a mild cold and because of the idiotic anti vaxxer people who are spreading their crazy crap, people who are not vaccinated are spreading it round faster than anyone, that’s why numbers have become so high!!

  2. Carl, but you still dont tell us what the government should do! You just give suggestions on so called “alternative” medicin (which already are proven not to work on this virus). Once again: what should the government do????

  3. I am glad some of the citizens are not researching these mad conspiracy theories!!! Happy New Year everyone and don’t forget DO NOT stand up and DO NOT listen to music in bars. If a bar plays music evacuate as a matter of safety!!!!

    • Oh yes, no music, and the mask will help. Funny how a mask out in public and sitting down at a table suddenly renders this virus incompetent. But will evade 3 jabs and some boosters.

  4. I look forward to hearing about the Novavax vaccination in the near future which has been approved by the EMA ( European drugs regulator). I look forward to assessing Novavax (KTG 20/12/21) which uses more conventional technology than Pfizer/BioNTech, AstraZeneca/Oxford, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson, which by all accounts uses new technology. As other posters have mentioned it would be unwise to use anything not having passed trials so I will wait for more information on Novavax.

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