“What we did that I think was successful was to implement strict social distancing measures relatively early and this seems to have worked,” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in an interview with CNN.

“We almost have full cooperation by the Greek people and I would like to thank them for the fact that respected our directions and actually stayed home with a very very few exceptions,” he stressed adding that “the hard work is still ahead of us.”

Some 8.34 million medical face masks were received on Tuesday at Athens International Airport (AIA), in the presence of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Antonis Papadimitriou, president of the Onassis Foundation which completes a donation of 13.5 million masks to Greece’s healthcare system. 

"Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis' determination in Evros and the battle against the coronavirus expresses all the Greeks and turned Greece from a black sheep into a positive example worldwide," Interior Minister Takis Theodorikakos said in an interview with Kathimerini newspaper on Sunday.