By Magda Panoutsopoulou
ATHENS (AA) - Greek Health Ministry representative Sotiris Tsiordas announced Saturday that 38 new coronavirus cases have been reported, raising the country’s total to 228.
Twenty-two are said to be domestic, meaning those patients did not travel overseas.
Fifty-seven patients are currently in hospitals and five are incubated in the Intensive care; eight have been released from hospitals.
Greece recorded three deaths due to the virus known as COVID-19.
Tsiordas, a disease specialist, said more than 3,400 samples have been tested.
The government announced earlier that it suspended all flights to and from Italy.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, in a meeting early Saturday, said the government will increase checks on compliance measures to control the spread of the virus.