ATHENS - Greece's prime minister on Monday said the country's vital tourist season could conditionally kick off in July as coronavirus lockdown restrictions begin to ease for the first time in six weeks.
Greece has officially announced more than 2,600 infections and 146 deaths, but the country of 11 million has so far carried out only around 81,000 tests. But many operators - especially restaurant owners and hoteliers - see the move as futile owing to strict spacing concerns."We can't accommodate more than four people at a time. That's 11 customers per day maximum," said Marie Lavigne, co-owner of a hair salon in the affluent Athens district of Kolonaki.
"This is where the difficult phase starts. Returning to a new normality seems like coming out of a labyrinth," government spokesman Stelios Petsas said Monday.