Greece's relevant health minister on Wednesday afternoon confirmed that the government has accepted a proposal by an expert committee of epidemiologists to order a general Covid-19-related lockdown throughout the country for one month.
Minister Vassilis Kikilias made the statement during a primetime newscast, adding that exceptions will include the operation of primary schools, kindergartens and nursery schools.
The news comes a day before Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is set to again appear in a nationally televised address, along with the government's head of the effort to combat the pandemic, Prof. Sotiris Tsiodras.
The prospect of a general lockdown again emerged this week in the wake of a significant surge in the number of daily confirmed coronavirus infections, with ever higher numbers reported on consecutive days and with more than 2,600 recorded just on Wednesday.
