Update 03/07/2020

As of the latest update by the Greek authorities yesterday, the total number of confirmed Covid-19 diagnosed cases in Greece is 3,458. No new Covid-19 deaths were reported in Thursday’s daily bulletin from the National Organization of Public Health (EODY). The number of patients treated in intensive care units stands at 8, while 118 patients have left the intensive care unit.

TOURISM

The Tourism Ministry released the final list of Greek destinations with quarantine hotels to be used for Covid-19 isolation purposes, as the country opens up to tourism. Some 75 hotels throughout Greece have been selected to operate as quarantine spots for tourists who may contract the coronavirus while on holiday in Greece. The hotels will host mild cases of Covid-19 that do not require hospitalization.

The quarantine hotels are located in the destinations of the following regions:

– Region of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace: Drama, Evros (Alexandroupolis) , Thassos and Samothraki

– Region of Attica: Aegina, Athens, Spetses, Hydra

– Region of North Aegean: Ikaria, Lesvos, Lemnos, Samos and Chios

– Region of Western Greece: Etoloakarnania, Ilia and Achaia (Kalavryta)

– Region of Western Macedonia: Kastoria, Kozani, Florina, Grevena

– Region of Epirus: Ioannina and Preveza

– Region of Thessaly: Karditsa, Magnesia (Volos), Alonissos, Skiathos, Skopelos, Trikala (Meteora)

– Region of Ionian Islands: Zakynthos, Corfu, Kefalonia, Ithaki and Lefkada, Paxoi

– Region of Central Macedonia: Thessaloniki, Kilkis, Pella (Edessa), Pieria (Katerini), Serres and Halkidiki

– Region of Crete: Heraklion, Lassithi, Rethymnon and Chania

– Region of South Aegean: Andros, Amorgos, Astypalea, Thira (Santorini), Kalymnos, Mykonos, Ios, Paros, Patmos, Kastelorizo, Kythnos, Kos, Lipsi, Leros, Naxos & Small Cyclades, Milos, Paros, Rhodes, Serifos, Sifnos, Syros and Tinos

– Region of Peloponnese: Argolida (Ermioni), Arcadia (Tripoli), Corinth, Laconia (Monemvasia) and Messinia

– Region of Central Greece: Evia (Eretria), Skyros, Evritania (Karpenisi), Fthiotida (Lamia) and Fokida (Delphi)

HEALTH

• The rate of coronavirus transmission in Greece has dropped to 0.2 from 0.5 a week earlier – well above the level of 1 indicating the need for restriction measures – the Greek government’s Covid-19 Observatory said in its weekly report on Thursday. The average rate of new cases over the past week was 16 a day compared to 22 the week before, while nationwide Greece had 1.51 infections per million of the population.

• Greece’s good performance in containing the spread of the virus is also reflected in the data on testing, which show that just 0.5% of Covid-19 diagnostic tests that were conducted in the period from June 25 to July 2 came back positive, meaning one per 203 tests.

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