"Bend it like Greece" : a success story for flattening the COVID-19 curve

Spyros Schismenos; Aristeidis Gkiatas; Garry J. Stevens; Tobias Bienz; Antoine A. Smith

"Bend it like Greece" : a success story for flattening the COVID-19 curve

Spyros Schismenos, Aristeidis Gkiatas, Garry J. Stevens, Tobias Bienz, Antoine A. Smith

Western Sydney University

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Abstract

Despite the economic crisis of the last decade and substantial migration flows from Syria and northern Africa, Greece is one of the few countries that has successfully managed to prevent the COVID-19 pandemic from spreading in its territory. As of 31 May, 2020, Greece had 2,917 total confirmed COVID-19 cases with 175 deaths (6%) and 1,374 recoveries (47%). These low numbers were the result of the COVID-19 National Preparedness and Response Plan which focused on Public Safety, National Healthcare, Economy and Information Media. Several key decisions exemplified the timely response of the government and health officials from the day the first COVID-19 case was confirmed on 26 February, 2020, to mid-May.3 While these likely contributed directly to reduced community transmission, they also served as important signals to the community about how this campaign would need to be fought.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	State Responses to COVID-19: A Global Snapshot at 1 June 2020
Editors	Nichole Georgeou, Charles Hawksley
Place of Publication	Penrith, N.S.W.
Publisher	Western Sydney University
Pages	101-102
Number of pages	2
Publication status	Published - 2020

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State Responses to COVID-19: A Global Snapshot at 1 June 2020, is licensed under Creative Commons: Attribution- NonCommercial- NoDerivatives- 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

Keywords

COVID-19 (disease)
pandemics
public health
Greece

UN SDGs

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"Bend it like Greece" : a success story for flattening the COVID-19 curve. / Schismenos, Spyros; Gkiatas, Aristeidis; Stevens, Garry J. et al.
State Responses to COVID-19: A Global Snapshot at 1 June 2020. ed. / Nichole Georgeou; Charles Hawksley. Penrith, N.S.W.: Western Sydney University, 2020. p. 101-102.

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"Bend it like Greece" : a success story for flattening the COVID-19 curve

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