Greece Set to Welcome Tourists by July, Encouraged by Low COVID-19 Counts

Greece Set to Welcome Tourists by July, Encouraged by Low COVID-19 Counts
A worker uses a thermal fogger to disinfect outside of a church in Thessaloniki, Greece, on March 12, 2020. Sakis Mitrolidis/AFP/Getty Images
Tom Ozimek
Tom Ozimek
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Greece is seeking to pitch itself as a safe vacation destination by the second half of summer amid broader hopes that some of Europe’s tight travel restrictions might be easing and so throwing the bloc’s struggling tourism industry a welcome lifeline.

As the number of CCP virus infections rose, the European Union shut its external boundaries to nonessential travel in March, as country after country imposed various lockdown measures to prevent the spread.
Tom Ozimek
Tom Ozimek
Reporter
Tom Ozimek is a senior reporter for The Epoch Times. He has a broad background in journalism, deposit insurance, marketing and communications, and adult education.
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