GREECE

The hairdressers, beauty salons, and archeological sites will reopen, as announced yesterday by the Greek Ministry of Health. Citizens will also be provided with tests on a weekly basis from pharmacies by citing their health care number (AMKA).

Despite the hold up at the European level, the Greek government appears determined to implement Plan B through transnational agreements to make use of progress on vaccinations to boost tourism. According to Finance Ministry officials, the consequences of freezing tourism revenues in 2021 at very low levels would be catastrophic for the economy.

The winter will be difficult, through January, he said, expressing concern for the health system in Northern Macedonia, particularly ICUs, but it was not unpredictable.

Most of the island's outstanding issues have been resolved in the last 15 months, his government's term, he said. "We are a government of works, not words," he underlined. A major outstanding issue includes the restoration of damage incurred during the great floods of 2017, as he noted.

As the minister announced, at this moment, we have 82,000 recognised refugees in Greece and we are proceeding with structural changes in the way the refugee will have access to the social state. Now, after the registration stage the refugees will be provided with a bank account, a taxpayer ID and a temporary social security number

"For the first time we have a list of sanctions, which are strict and can be implemented in whole or in part. Unless there is an imminent de-escalation, it is certain that things will be very difficult for Erdogan at the European Council on September 24,25," he underlined.

On the Cyclades islands there were 68 inspections of businesses and 18 violations confirmed. Also on Mykonos, one person was arrested for violating the measures to prevent the spread of diseases and fined 5,000 euros.

Restrictive measures to contain a resurgence of novel coronavirus infections were imposed on Lesvos island on Sunday by the Civil Protection Deputy Minister Nikos Hardalias.

Hardalias urged for the use of face masks to people returning home from holidays in highly burdened areas and recommended the use of face mask at all indoors facilities. when the necessary distance is not possible to be kept.

According to the data on salaried employment for July, new jobs reached 306,808, while job cuts reached 238,897 (87,824 came from voluntary resignations and 151,073 from the termination of open-ended contracts or the expiration of fixed-term contracts). The 67,911 jobs created are the best performance since July 2001, while last year the balance was negative with 14,691 fewer jobs.