CORONAVIRUS

Limit your movements, stay home when the first symptoms appear, and do not expose yourself to danger so as not to expose your family and others because of your contacts.

A spate of reports indicates that the PM’s office has been pressuring Archbishop Ieronymos to rally his fellow bishops behind strict enforcement at churches of state public health guidelines.

In a contemporary, rationally organised society epidemiologists and other expert scientists – and not politicians or the Church - decide what measures will be implemented in an epidemic.

One of the particularities of the current crisis as compared to the great fiscal crisis is that the virus harms both supply and demand. It leads to the closure of factories, breaks supply chains, and limits consumer consumption.

'The recent virus has ‘visited’ me and I felt obliged to let the public know.I feel good as I take all the necessary measures and I follow the doctors’ instructions,' said the leader of Olympiacos FC.

Bank of America cited concerns over the coronavirus in revising downwards its initial projections on the growth of the global economy – from 3.2 percent to 2.8 percent.

Last September the WHO called upon governments to prepare for possible pandemics that could cause chaos in the global economy.