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The night traffic ban will remain active throughout the month (photo: INTIME NEWS).
Bars closed and nightlife until the vaccine arrives, Mr. Mitsotakis announced yesterday, speaking online with Columbia University President Lee Bollinger as part of his participation in the “World Leaders” forum. “I hope that when we come out of the second lock we will be much more careful. But again, this would mean that you have to spend on these processes. For example, night entertainment, bars, midnight entertainment,” he said characteristically, ending the discussion. relevant for at least another month, until the vaccines arrive. Regarding the restaurant, Mr. Mitsotakis announced that its opening is still slow, with the characteristic phrase “maybe at some point we can open restaurants with the appropriate social distance”, Something that postpones the relevant uprising for later.Since schools cannot open just a week before Christmas, the only visible opening is retail, again with strict restrictions.
This is interpreted by the displeasure of the prime minister in the previous period that “we will go based on the data and not the dates.” The data one month after the imposition of the blockade is specific. The cases do not fall at the expected rate, so the following steps are an equation for solid solvers. It is characteristic that this week the logic says that the positive cases would have fallen close to 1,500 and even more. Instead, we see that the cases remain above 2,000, showing a drop of only 10% compared to the previous week, which is the most valid measure of comparison. In Athens on Tuesday, cases were slightly higher compared to last Tuesday, something that rang several bells to experts. The above data does not leave room for a massive lifting of restrictions and the plans have changed dramatically compared to two weeks ago.
The sermon is conditional
In these circumstances, the Prime Minister’s speech, which was scheduled for tomorrow and in which he would describe the roadmap for the next day, is conditional, as it is considered that he may send the wrong message at a time when he has not yet the expected descent has come. Today St. Petsas will announce the extension of the shutdown for at least a week and the Prime Minister’s announcements may be postponed to next week. Finally, the Prime Minister, in a greeting to the Panhellenic Exporters Association on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of its founding, pointed out that, despite the pandemic, exports are showing their resilience. In the first 9 months of 2020, he characteristically said, “they reached 17.5 billion, surpassing the corresponding performance of 2019 by 253 million.”
New Pfizer center in Thessaloniki
The creation of a new Pfizer hub in Thessaloniki was announced by the company’s CEO, Albert Bourla, with his speech at the 31st Greek Economic Summit. It is a service center that will link Pfizer’s innovation centers around the world and will have 350 people. Mr Bourla also stated that the company’s first investment, the innovation center in Thessaloniki, has started to operate very dynamically and will employ 200 employees by the end of the year. He also outlined the roadmap that governments must follow in the first half of 2021 to vaccinate a critical number of citizens.
