The head of Greece’s experts committee established to combat the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, on Thursday’s called for a strict observance of measures and restrictions until at least March, in order to prevent the spread of the virus.
Prof. Sotiris Tsiodras, a noted epidemiologist, made the statement during a briefing of members of parliamentary committee.
Tsiodras added that active cases of Covid-19 will hover at between 7 to 8,000 on a weekly basis in the east Mediterranean country, under the current conditions.
In a related development, the country’s prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, on Thursday was on hand for the inauguration of additional ICUs at an Athens-area hospital, a donation of the Stavros Niarchos Institute.