Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has thanked the people for their discipline. Greece, it is generally agreed, is having a better crisis than may have been expected. The country’s ability to cope with a public health emergency of such proportions was not a given. Greece, like Italy, also has a large elderly population, with about a quarter of pensionable age. “When the pandemic broke, the need to simplify government processes became paramount,” Greece’s minister of digital governance, Kyriakos Pierrakakis, told the Guardian.

Source: The Standard April 14, 2020 07:07 UTC