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In the final stretch is the government’s plan to restart the economy after the official announcement of a one-week extension of the lockdown, with focus being one of the key questions.
There is another extension on the table for another week, and final decisions will be made within the next week, where the outlook regarding the course of the pandemic will be clearer. The discussion, according to the infectious diseases specialist Vana Papaevangelou, will resume next week when the suggestion is made to the prime minister.
The final decisions will be judged by the two known factors, which are the number of cases and the pressure on the SEN, which is reflected in the hospitalization of the patients, as well as in the intubated patients.
Government officials say all the scenarios are plausible at the moment, and the prevailing one wants the “ban” to last until December 14 with the sole exception, perhaps, of schools. 
What will happen to the focus?
However, the most difficult puzzle is the focus aperture.
Despite the scenarios that saw the reopening of restaurants and cafes around December 20, a few days before Christmas, this solution does not seem to be in favor.
According to your exclusive information MEGA, the scenario that the restaurant does not open anything during the holidays is gaining more and more ground.
According to the same sources, several industry representatives have already sent their message to the government and the ministries in charge of not opening stores at all during the holidays, that is, not to enter the “accordion” scene, because the damage that have suffered is severe.
It should be noted that this decision does not refer to bars and clubs that are not expected to open anyway, but to cafes and restaurants.
Speaking to RealNews, the Minister of Development, Adonis Georgiadis, and listing the four conditions for the opening of retail and catering, pointed out, among other things, that “under no circumstances should there be overcrowding, much more indoors, but also outdoors “. .
The estimate that the resumption of economic activity will occur before the Christmas holidays was expressed this Saturday morning by the government spokesman, Stelios Petsas. Asked what will open first, he replied that “the safest way is open education.”
“Then the opening of retail is contemplated, while later the rest of the activities, gradually”. However, he was quick to emphasize that “the condition is that cases drop.” 
“Better not open if the conditions do not exist”
For their part, catering entrepreneurs reiterate that the conditions in which they will reopen are more important than the date they will open, while emphasizing that it does not make sense to operate for the holidays and to close again immediately afterwards.
The president of the Panhellenic Federation of Restaurants and Allied Professions, George Kavvathas, stressed in the previous days that, if the fullness for the operation of the stores is set below 50%, then it is better not to open the restaurant at all for the Christmas holidays.
He pointed out, in statements on the insider.gr website, that the separation between restaurants and bars, with the first in operation and the second closed, is very difficult and in many cases impossible to implement.
According to him, the request is that companies are not forced to close again in the next period. The damage to professionals will be, he said, great if they bear the cost of reopening their stores before the holidays and then being asked to close again.
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