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Greece’s initial success in curbing COVID-19 turned the country from a black sheep into the shining example of Europe – but the reverse is true in the second wave.
Following a relatively carefree summer, the daily death tally now hovers near the three-digit mark and is still high. In fact, within 40 days, more than 2,500 coronavirus-related deaths in Greece have caused some to say the “success story” of the first phase of the pandemic was just a fluke.
Experts paint a grim picture. Dr Petros Pappas, head of the Emergency Department at the General Hospital of Kilkis in Northern Greece, points to the government’s “negative example of crisis management”, Dr Vasileios Margaritis of Walden University states the government’s strategy is “confused” and Dr Stella Ladi, Associate Professor at Queen Mary University of London and Panteion University in Athens warns of lockdown fatigue and people making “compromises”.