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People walk a closed edifice during a 24-hour nationwide edifice onslaught to protestation COVID-19-related fines and higher vigor costs, successful Athens, Greece, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021. Associations representing restaurants and catering businesses successful Greece are holding strikes and enactment stoppages crossed the state Tuesday, seeking renewed fiscal alleviation from the authorities owed to the effects of the pandemic. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

ATHENS – Associations representing restaurants and catering businesses successful Greece organized strikes and protests crossed the state Tuesday, seeking renewed fiscal alleviation from the authorities owed to the effects of the coronavirus pandemic.

Normally engaged restaurants, java shops, bars, and accepted tavernas successful Athens remained closed with chairs flipped onto outdoor tables, including successful the Greek capital's historical Plaka district.

Protesters successful the bluish metropolis of Thessaloniki placed an bare coffin extracurricular a authorities building, portion marchers carried achromatic balloons successful the confederate larboard of Patras. Brief scuffles broke retired astatine a rally successful cardinal Athens erstwhile constabulary stopped demonstrators blocking postulation adjacent the premier minister's authoritative residence.

Greece is presently reporting its highest numbers of confirmed coronavirus cases of the pandemic and the highest COVID-19 mortality complaint successful six months. The authorities re-imposed immoderate restrictions that people the astir one-third of the colonisation that remains unvaccinated.

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The government's nationalist wellness advisors person recommended tighter capableness limits for businesses and different measures to power infections. Officials are acceptable to determine aboriginal this week whether to instrumentality the recommendations.

As portion of the tougher measures, backstage doctors could beryllium obliged to enactment for the nationalist wellness work to screen unit shortages.

Giorgos Kavathas, the person of Greece’s largest tiny concern association, said businesses are seeking taxation breaks and rent subsidies from the government.

“We enactment the nationalist wellness measures, but we besides request assistance,” helium told authorities tally television. “Let’s not hide that successful the past 20 months, catering businesses were closed for astatine slightest nine, and others without outdoor lawsuit spaces were closed for 12 months. The wealth that was mislaid volition ne'er beryllium regained, truthful intelligibly we request to person a superior discussion.”

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