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PM Mitsotakis Chairs Meeting on Greece’s Coronavirus Developments

ATHENS — Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Monday chaired a video conference on COVID-19.

Government sources said that there was an evaluation of the condition and details on the course of the pandemic were presented.

The prime minister said that the government is ready to make local intervention if this is considered necessary by the experts and asked for the codification of the rules on the use of face masks in order to be clear to the citizens that it is mandatory.

In the teleconference took part Health Minister Vassilis Kikilias, Tourism Minister Haris Theocharis, State Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis, Deputy Civil Protection Minister Nikos Hardalias, Deputy Health Minister Vassilis Kontozamanis, Deputy Minister to the Prime Minister Akis Skertsos, Deputy Minister to the Prime Minister and government spokesman Stelios Petsas, the prime minister's general secretary Grigoris Dimitriadis and other officials.

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