On Thursday, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis ordered a nationwide lockdown for three weeks to curb the rapid outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19), starting next Saturday.
In a statement, the Prime Minister said that, under the new countrywide restrictions, retail businesses will be shut with the exception of supermarkets and pharmacies, noting that all primary schools will stay open, but high schools will shut.
The country has reported fewer cases than most in Europe, mainly due to an early nationwide lockdown that it imposed when the pandemic broke out in February. It started unwinding those restrictions in May.
Since early October it has seen a surge in coronavirus infections and has been re-imposing curbs. The resurgence was "particularly aggressive", chief government scientific adviser Sotiris Tsiodras said, speaking alongside Mitsotakis.
Greece registered 2,646 infections on Wednesday, the highest daily tally since its first case surfaced, bringing the total number of cases to 46,892. So far, 673 people have died of the disease.
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