Syriza on Tuesday proposed a set of additional preventive measures the government should pursue against the coronavirus, following the party leader Alexis Tsipras' briefing by Health Minister Vasilis Kikilias and specialists.

"Greece must seek substantial EU support, as these people do not come here to stay on Lesvos or Limnos islands, they are coming to move on through to the rest of Europe," SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras said in comments on the unfolding Greek-Turkish border migration crisis on Mega TV station, on Tuesday evening. 

Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras criticized Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis for not claiming, as he said, additional funding from the EU's Cohesion Fund, in a doorstep statement at the Pre-EU Council Meeting of the Party of European Socialists (PES) in Brussels on Thursday.