A new period characterised by much greater freedom of movement, but at the same time, the continuation of individual precautionary measures begins today.
In detail, from today, 14 May:
-Cancel sending a message to 13032 and 13033.
-Traffic is extended until half an hour after midnight.
-The museums are opening.
-Opening up tourism.
-The casinos are opening.
-The confederation offices open.
-Opening of the hyperlocal - interregional travel under certain conditions - what in updating the course of the pandemic on Wednesday, Deputy Prime Minister Akis Skertssos called the Greek version of the «green certificate» for travel to the island country.
In particular, for travel to and from the islands -with the exception of Lefkada, the Euboea and the Salamina- it is compulsory to produce either vaccination certificate, 14 days after the second dose, or a negative result PCR test 72 hours, or rapid test 24 hours, or self-test 24 hours, or a sickness certificate fee, valid from 2 to 9 months after.
It should be noted that screening will be mandatory for airlines and ferry companies, while all domestic and foreign travellers, aged 5 years and over, must meet the above requirements.
To clarify, the declaration of self-tests should be made on the platform self-testing.gov.gr, while those who come to public and private facilities for PCR or rapid antigen tests should ask for a digital certificate with the test result.
It should also be noted that for overland journeys from county to county, a strong recommendation is made for regular diagnostic tests.
Given the abolition of text messaging, changes are also taking place in consumer behaviour today: the retail trade it goes back to what we knew, without an appointment, that is, (click in and click away), but health protocols continue to be respected in terms of the number of customers: one customer per 25 square metres. On the contrary, music will not be heard in food outlets for the entire month of May.
In the next few days, more specifically from Monday 17 May, the following will be reopened nurseries, a few days later (21 May) the summer cinemas, even the OPAP PLAY (24 May) and the open cultural spaces (28 May). Also, the gyms, the beauty centres and the banqueting rooms (from 31 May), the brothels from 7 June, while from June, weddings and baptisms are planned in an outdoor venue, with a maximum of 100 people.
Tourism is essentially opening in two phases: from now until the end of June more cautiously, and from July more massively. ’Key« to the government's plan is security in tourism, with vaccination all islanders on the one hand, with the observance of specific measures by tourists on the other.
In the first part, all adult residents of the smaller islands, up to 10,000 inhabitants, have already been vaccinated, which will also happen to adult residents of the larger islands no later than 1.5 months from now. Consequently, «in June all islands, except Crete, for obvious reasons, will have universal vaccination of their population, with the result that a firewall has been created,» State Minister George Gerapetritis said in an interview on Thursday.
As far as tourists are concerned, from 1 June, the European green certificate, at the same time as the EVA algorithm, targeted random checks will continue at our country's entry gates, depending on the epidemiological load of each visitor's country of origin.
It is noted that visitors from abroad will have the opportunity to take regular tests during their stay and, before leaving for their home countries, to retest, so that there is no concern in the countries of origin, the Deputy Minister to the Prime Minister had the opportunity to emphasize, finally Akis Skertos, from the podium of the 6th Delphi Economic Forum.
