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Covid restrictions could be imposed on some of Greece’s most popular holiday islands amid a rapid rise in infections. The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) marked the South Aegean islands in the very high risk category of dark red last week.Officials have advised against all but essential travel to the region, which covers destinations such as Mykonos, Santorini, Rhodes and Kos.Nikos Hardalias, Greece’s Deputy Civil Protection Minister, said that Mykonos and Ios were “one step” away from further restrictions being imposed to deal with rising infections.Both islands have currently been marked as ‘orange’ under Greece’s Covid system of restrictions.

A state of emergency has been declared on a second Greek island as earthquakes continue to rattle the south-eastern Aegean Sea - a region popular with British holidaymakers. The emergency measure ahs been announced on the island of Amorgos.

An expert has warned that the risk of a ‘major’ earthquake in the Greek islands surrounding Santorini remains, despite changes in seismic activity.

Greece’s government declared a state of emergency on Santorini on Thursday (February 6) after hundreds of undersea earthquakes shook the resort island for nearly a week.

Most young Europeans still face a long wait for Covid-19 vaccination, but Argyris Souanis, 32 years old, is about to get his shot because he is lucky enough to live on the Greek island of Santorini.Mr. Souanis will get one of the single-dose vaccines made by Johnson & Johnson that Greece’s government has decided to direct mostly to Greek islands, in a quest to fully inoculate islanders and save the cornerstone of the Greek economy: the summer tourist season.Mr.

Greece has enforced a strict night-time curfew on many popular islands, after the highest number of daily new cases was recorded since the pandemic started.

Greece is, too.Heavily reliant on tourism, the country is officially reopening to foreigners on Monday after closing its borders to most during the coronavirus pandemic. Its hopes are pinned on popular tourist destinations such as Mykonos and the islands of Rhodes, Corfu, Crete and Santorini, where regular ferry service already resumed and direct international flights are set to restart on July 1.

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