„Die restriktiven Maßnahmen haben die Epidemie unter Kontrolle gehalten. Aber leider hat die Regierung die gewonnene Zeit nicht dazu genutzt, das Gesundheitssystem zu stärken. Deshalb ist das Risiko einer zweiten Welle und von vielfachen Ausbrüchen sehr groß.“
Interview mit Alexis Benos und Elias Kondilis, beide Ärzte und Professoren an der Aristoteles Universität von Tessaloniki. phmovement.org:
„Chiara Bodini: Can you give an overview of the current situation in Greece concerning the Covid-19 epidemic?
Alexis Benos: The situation here developed with some delay compared to other countries. Italy played an important role in front of us: we were looking at what was happening in Italy, without yet seeing the problem here. The first case was a woman coming from Milan, then several cases were detected among a group of Christians who had visited Jerusalem. At the very beginning, they started to treat the cases and trace the contacts in order to contain the situation, but soon after the government and the public health services stopped intensive spotting of cases and started quickly to take lockdown measures, starting with schools. Today we can say that this had an impact in limiting the expansion of the epidemic: we are seeing a reduction of patients in intensive care units (ICUs) and the number of Covid deaths is stabilizing or even decreasing.“ weiterlesen