Greece has begun deploying police units to holiday island hotspots as the country’s tourism season moves into high gear amid a worrying spread of coronavirus variants. “The Delta variant has meant that every country is dealing with the fourth wave now and not as expected in November,” the Greek tourism minister Haris Theoharis told the Guardian. The cluster of 13 islands includes Mykonos, Santorini and Rhodes. “Smaller islands are fuller than bigger islands,” he said. “We’re seeing a fourth wave but no wave at all in terms of hospitalisations and stress on the health system,” said Theoharis.

Source: The Guardian July 30, 2021 04:00 UTC