(CNN) — There's a reason Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis flew to Santorini earlier this month when he wanted to announce the reopening of his country to tourism. "No one on Santorini wants to catch Covid," says Joy Kerluke, who runs Dmitri's Taverna at Ammoudi Bay. "I have to say that with the lockdown we felt safe on Santorini as we had no cases and nobody was coming here. Santorini, with its blue-domed churches and thousand-foot cliffs will look exactly the same, but it's going to be unusually empty. "Santorini is one of the most beautiful places on Earth, but I am sure that lockdown was helpful," he says.

Source: CNN June 20, 2020 08:15 UTC