CORONAVIRUS GREECE

We have yet to discover a medicine or vaccine and four questions about the coronavirus remain unanswered – how exactly it is dispersed through the air, how easy it is for people without symptoms to transmit it, what immunity it may create, and what scars it leaves behind.

This stage of the spread of the virus will create huge challenges for the public health system, the economy, and infrastructure.

Over 20 of the current 31 cases were infected on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land combined with a visit to Egypt. The first confirmed case from that trip was a 66-year-old man currently in an isolated intensive care area in the University Hospital of Rio

The appearance of the coronavirus will be a difficult test for the state’s infrastructure and for the professionalism and readiness of state functionaries and officials.