The Guardian: How Greece is beating coronavirus
The Guardian newspaper in an article on Tuesday praises Greece for beating coronavirus despite a decade of debt, adding that hospitals bore brunt of cuts but its efforts to contain Covid-19 appear to be paying off.
"Every day at 6 pm Greeks turn on their TV sets and tune into a broadcast that at other times they might have missed. Like most rituals, there are no surprises: each time they encounter the same scene, two men, seated several meters apart, behind a long table in a brightly lit room," the newspaper said in its article.
According to The Guardian, the health ministry’s daily coronavirus briefing then begins with Sotiris Tsiodras, a soft-spoken Harvard-trained professor of infectious diseases, delivering the latest facts and figures with the occasional emotional plea. Nikos Hardalias, the civil defence minister, invariably follows, invoking the gravity of the situation with warnings that Greeks "must stay at home".
"Their efforts at keeping the country virus-safe appear to be paying off: in a population of just over 11 million, there were, as of Monday, 2,145 confirmed cases of coronavirus and 99 fatalities, far lower than elsewhere in Europe. Italy to date has registered 20,465 deaths," it said.
The Guardian underlined that Greece, it is generally agreed, is having a better crisis than may have been expected. "Tsiodras recently allowed himself to speak of 'a flattening of the curve' even if authorities accept that the prospect of Orthodox Easter, on 19 April, is unlikely to be without challenge. Traditionally, Greeks flock to ancestral villages in the countryside to celebrate the biggest festival in their religious calendar."
Source: ana-mna
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