Greece Hits New COVID-19 Record

World

October 3rd, 7:41am

Asharq Al-Awsat

Medical student Michaella Alexandrou holds the hand of a patient as her colleague takes a blood test at the Pathological Clinic of Sotiria Hospital in Athens. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Greece hit a new record with 460 daily confirmed infections on Friday. Total infections have nearly reached 20,000 cases. With five more deaths, the overall toll has reached 398. The infections Friday included 114 cases among workers at a canning factory in northern Greece, which has been closed. Officials said there’s no need for new lockdown measures, provided the public obeys existing ones, The Associated Press reported. Starting Saturday, visitors from Poland and the Czech Republic will be among those needing a negative coronavirus test before traveling to Greece.

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