Travel agents will find it easier to book trips to Greece now that the popular destination has rescinded all regulations relating to COVID-19, including the rule that foreigners who tested positive while in Greece would have to go into hotel quarantine.
Now, COVID-positive travellers may choose not to isolate for five days. They are freely allowed on all public transport within and into Greece, as long as they are wearing an FFP2 or KN95 face mask.
“There was a lot of discussion about how to manage outbreaks at tourist accommodation facilities, and we decided to enforce the rules that apply in other Mediterranean countries. The majority of countries in northern Europe have no measures in place to protect against the coronavirus,” Epidemiologist Christos Hatzichristodoulou says, according to Greek press.
Greece has a high vaccination rate, having fully vaccinated 7,63m residents, about 72% of the Greek population, which is 10% higher than the global average.
