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Greece Continues Easing Covid-19 Restrictions, Enters 5th Stage
Posted On 01 Jun 2020
With the reopening of year-round hotels, open-air cinemas, golf courses and a number of other businesses and services, Greece on Monday, June 1, entered the fifth stage of easing the restrictive measures that had been imposed to curb the spread of Covid-19.
List of businesses that have reopened
Increased hygiene measures and physical distancing rules apply for the operation of all the following businesses.
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- Hotels (year-round) – Greece’s year-round hotels will operate under specific health protocols in response to COVID-19.
- Organized tourist campsites, facilities for trailers and motorhomes. These businesses will operate under specific health protocols in response to COVID-19. It is noted that children’s camps still remain closed.
- Businesses offering:
– Catering activities
– Film screenings (only open-air cinemas). Restrictions apply on the number of moviegoers allowed in an open-air cinema. Films will be screened without intermission to avoid crowding at the refreshment area.
– Canteens in sports facilities
– Library and archive services
– Golf or mini golf courses
– Swimming pool services
– Venues for specific events (weddings and related events)
– Planning services for events (weddings and related events)
– Matchmaking services
– Tattoo services
– Body piercing services
– Massage services
– Sunday open markets, neighborhood fairs
The coronavirus has so far infected 2,917 people in Greece and the death toll has reached 175, still among the lowest among EU member-states.
Greece Stage 1 of Easing Covid-19 Lockdown Restrictions
Greece Stage 2 of Easing Covid-19 Lockdown Restrictions
Greece Stage 3 of Easing Covid-19 Lockdown Restrictions
Greece Stage 4 of Easing Covid-19 Lockdown Restrictions
Yes also (European Union) politics indeed! For example Bulgaria with a low covid rate is allowing the Netherlands in from 15 june but Greece is not allowing it without quarantaine etc.
People that booked through tourists organitations need to pay up weeks in advance but do not know if they will travel in Europe and Greece too. And if they cancel you only get a voucher for now. Tourists that want to spend money and spend on holidays are loosing their minds here on social media nobody cares.Days off are not something all bosses want and you cant change days easily during corona time. Too bad normal numbercitizens need to experience stress because of politics in Europe and outside!
The virus problem is extremely exaggerated. Greece has no reason to make travel impossible. If the one day quarantine and medical test papers at entry are still mandatory we will choose Croatia, Italy, Hungary, France or any other countries without such hassle. Only deadly ill people past away in Hungary. In the end, we have less deaths than during a usual flu season.
Northern Ireland is part of the U.K. but we have a separate Government, we have not been hit hard by the virus, although there are over 500 deaths 46 % of theses were in care homes. We now have been locked up for 10 weeks, the last week we have had daily 2, 2 4 4 0 0 deaths.
Why can’t we fly to Crete on 1st July you are letting China in, it started there and no one has a clue how many died there.
It is political. Everyone is toadying up to the Chinese, just in case they come up with a vaccine first.