On the tourist island of Mykonos, revelers flooded beaches, bars and restaurant the previous weekend for the Orthodox Easter holiday. In Greece, where tourism accounts for about 20% of its GNP, enforcing the rules had already fallen off prior to Sunday. “Let’s say it’s a return to life, a free life.” “We have waited more than two years.”Īt a nearby table, Andrea Bichler, an Italian tourist from Trentino Alto-Adige, sat with friends, all without masks. Until Sunday, patrons had to wear a mask to enter bars and restaurants, though they could remove them to eat and drink.
“It was needed,” said Claudio Civitelli, a Rome resident having his morning coffee at a bar near the Trevi Fountain. Masks are still required on public transport, in cinemas and in all health care facilities and nursing homes. Some indoor mask mandates in Italy also ended, including inside supermarkets, workplaces and stores. Can you catch the omicron COVID-19 variant twice?
