February 7th, local time, Panayyotis, president of the Greek Association for the Protection of Business and Consumer Rights, said in an interview with the domestic media that due to the recent increase in the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the capital Athens and the second largest city, Thessaloniki, in order to contain the Pandemic
It was decided to stop the Pandemic on February 7 and February 13 and 14 On the day, small supermarkets and grocery stores in the above areas were closed at 17:00.
As of the 6th, the Greek National Health Organization reported that in the past 24 hours, there have been 1,113 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Greece.
This is the fifth consecutive day since the 2nd of that month that Greece has more than 1,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19. Greece has confirmed a total of 163,213 cases of COVID-19 and 5,951 deaths.
Greece has detected 232 confirmed cases of COVID-19 variant strains found in the United Kingdom, and 4 confirmed cases of COVID-19 variant strains found in South Africa.
