page_title: COVID-19 pandemic in Greece
section_title: Response measures
hierarchical_section_title: COVID-19 pandemic in Greece / Response measures
caption_attribution_description: Ελληνικά: Μήνυμα από Γενική Γραμματεία Πολιτικής Προστασίας για την πανδημία κορονοϊού στις 11 Μαρτίου 2020.
context_page_description: The COVID-19 pandemic in Greece is part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. The first case in Greece was confirmed on 26 February 2020, when a 38-year-old woman from Thessaloniki who had recently visited Νorthern Italy, was confirmed to be infected. Subsequent cases in late February and early March related to people who had travelled to Italy and a group of pilgrims who had travelled to Israel and Egypt, as well as their contacts. The first death from COVID-19 in Greece was a 66-year-old man, who died on 12 March. As of 30 August 2020, there have been 10134 confirmed cases and 262 deaths. Since the opening of the Greek borders to tourists at the end of June 2020, the daily number of confirmed cases announced has included those detected following tests at the country's entry points.
  Following the confirmation of the first three cases in Greece, all carnival events in the country were cancelled on 27 February.
context_section_description: Starting on 16 March, the Hellenic Ministry of Health introduced a daily afternoon live televised briefing with updates on the progression of the pandemic in the country and the government's emergency measures, hosted by Dr. Sotiris Tsiodras, the health ministry spokesman on the coronavirus pandemic, and Deputy Minister for Civil Protection and Crisis Management Nikos Hardalias, with occasional appearances of other government officials as well. From the beginning of May, the live televised briefings were held three times a week, while a daily COVID-19 report by NPHO on the progression of the disease in the country was published online. On 27 May, after 72 days, the televised briefings ended, while the daily NPHO reports on the daily number of new cases and deaths continued. From mid-July, weekly televised briefings by Hardalias, focusing solely on operational issues, were re-introduced.
caption: Cell Broadcast Message sent on all smartphones in Greece on March 11 by the General Secretariat for Civil Protection, with general instructions regarding the pandemic
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