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Greece has approximately 102 confirmed cases per one million population, double in comparison with last week, a rate that places Greece very low, in the 66th place against the 55th last Sunday 22 March and only 22nd among the EU countries. The global average of cases is approximately 85 per one million population.

He said that Europe got out of all the major crises stronger and referred to the need for closer cooperation and also the issue of a eurobond. On the repatriation of Greeks, he said that the government wants to keep the coronavirus away from Greece. Only those suffering from a serious health problem certified by a doctor will return to Greece.

The European Central Bank has fully shielded the banking system in terms of liquidity, bad loans, and capital adequacy, while the European Commission has suspended several regulations to prevent any additional state aid measures from having an impact on shareholders, bondholders, and depositors. Greek bank shares, despite yesterday's gains of 17.84 percent, may have plummeted 60 percent since the beginning of the year, but the current crisis for Greek lenders is very different from what we have experienced in recent years.

Greece's Digital Governance Ministry and the General Secretariat of Telecommunications and Post stated in relevant guidelines that 'there has recently been an increase in activity in emails with alleged material about Covid-19 coronaviruses that contain malware. Users are urged to pay close attention to any message that refers to Covid-19 in its title or content."Sources say that in recent days violations have been reported by companies where hackers attempted to pry open holes in systems, exploiting security gaps created by remote work.

The lockdown does not solve the problem: the country, the government is simply saving time to curb the epidemic and to best handle a difficult situation. Additionally, the lockdown does not protect the vulnerable, a lot of work still needs to be done to support these groups, who continue to move about and put their lives at risk.

These are unprecedented scenes in central Athens: almost all stores all closed, few people on the streets (most wearing masks and gloves), car traffic is severely limited, normally full parking spaces are vacant and the otherwise busy cafes have been boarded up.

According to brokers, chartering a tanker from the Middle East to China costs $243,347 per day, an increase of 700 percent from just over a week ago. By taking a look at moves that Greek shipowners have made lately, one gets the general feeling is that fares will remain high in coming weeks.

Bank of Greece governor, Yannis Stournaras, met with the heads of the country's lenders on Monday and briefed them on the positive outcome of talks on the issue. This is seen a being a major development for the sector as it opens the path for the sale of large-sized securitizations of bad loans within the framework of the Hercules plan that will offer state guarantees on senior tranches, once conditions in the market return to normal.

The economic collapse that has been taking place in recent weeks has been unprecedented: thousands of overnight cancellations in AirBnB apartments, occupancy rates at Athens hotels at less than 20 percent, unprecedented cancellations in summer destinations, empty shopping malls, brakes drawn on trucks transporting industrial products and raw materials, large companies with a strategic role in the economy, such as Ae

"The next month will be very difficult" said Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in an interview with Proto Thema newspaper. "We will have an increase of the cases and of the serious cases, some people will lose their lives, we should know that " he underlined.