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Συνέντευξη του Γιάννη Κορεντσίδη  στην έγκυρη ειδησεογραφική ιστοσελίδα POLITICO

By on 30/05/2020

“Δεν έκλεισα τα μάτια μου τις τρεις πρώτες μέρες της καραντίνας στην περιοχή”

Ο Δήμαρχος Καστοριάς, Γιάννης Κορεντσίδης φιλοξενήθηκε με δηλώσεις του, ανάμεσα σε 28 Δημάρχους της Ευρώπης, σε σχετικό δημοσίευμα, μιλώντας για την κρίση της πανδημίας στην περιοχή, για την πόλη και τα χαρακτηριστικά της και για τις δυσκολίες της “επόμενης μέρας”.  

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🇬🇷  Yiannis Korentsidis, mayor of Kastoria, Greece

Where? City of around 36,000 people in northern Greece, famous for its beautiful lake and its fur industry.

Biggest problem? The city and the broader area were the first to be hit by the pandemic in Greece and recorded one of the highest per capita death tolls.

Needs from government/EU? Incentives for people to stay in the city and work and help for local businesses. Local authorities are applying for EU grants to promote tourism in the area. “The next days will be very hard,” Korentsidis said.

Longer-term worries: There were few jobs even before the pandemic because of a crisis in the fur industry, with revenues down by 90 percent since 2014. “The few young people remaining might soon leave.”

Any upside? The community’s hospital has been upgraded with new equipment, and health and local officials have shown they know how to handle a crisis. Hopefully more personnel will be hired at the hospital soon too.

What’s the media missing? “We were asking for strict movement restrictions two weeks before they were eventually imposed. Maybe if that happened earlier the spread would have been smaller.”

How are you coping? “I didn’t close my eyes even for a second in the first three days of the quarantine in the area, but I believe that nothing is difficult if you come out of it healthy eventually.”

Anything else? Because the area experienced a more severe outbreak than the rest of Greece, local people have been insulted and rejected as seasonal tourism workers, even though the city has been virus-free for more than a month.

— Nektaria Stamouli

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