Schools closed from today, football closedown extended to April 30th, looks like it will be June at the earliest for british travel, a shame but will rebook for later in the year, will ask your advice at a later date , cheers.
Sounds good, Tony. 
Stay safe until then!
Today the government announced this new measure in Greece:
Travel to the Aegean islands will be banned for non-residents starting 6am Saturday, 21 March
Only people who live on the islands will be allowed to board the ferries. This is a temporary measure that includes Thassos.
Feel sorry for the people relying on the tourist industry, hope there is something in place to help the hardship coming, same happening here on the coast every tourist attraction closed staff being told to stay at home unpaid caravan parks not opening at Easter again staff not working, will take a few years to recover from this.
Latest uk news: All pubs/restaurants must close tonight, nightclubs,theatres,cinemas,gymns and leisure centres must close asap, libraries to close 5 pm monday, Boris 20 mins ago.
also note the original sombrero hat described to show the graph has now become a series of wavy lines of lock (close) down release over the whole year. The government know that people will only bear so long in close down. So they will do this method of containment to keep it under the NHS coping levels. Retired staff and equipment are being brought in to obvious boost that level.
Hi everybody
Greece is under lockdown from today, 23 March until April 6.
Residents are required to stay at home. They may leave their homes only if they have a good reason, like:
- Traveling to work
- Getting groceries, medicine, or gas
- Doctorâs appointment or visit to a medical establishment
- Helping others who need assistance (family, neighbors, seniors, disabled people, etc.)
- Walking your pet outside
Thereâs a 2-person limit when in public or in a vehicle. People may not travel with more than 1 other person at a time.
Anyone who leaves their home is required to carry identification on their person along with a written declaration (printable PDF available online), stating where they are going and where they have left from.
Alternatively, people can send an SMS message to a designated number and inform the authorities of their intended movement. They then receive a reply SMS giving them authorization, which you would then need to show to an officer if you are stopped during transit.
As you can see, the Greek government continues taking covid-19 very seriously and is fulfilling its promise to prioritize the protection of public health in Greece. So far, the measures seem to be helping! New cases of the coronavirus are increasing but at a stable rate, allowing authorities and the health system to manage it better.
Keep staying safe, everybody! Remember that weâre all in this together and that you arenât alone.
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Hi everybody
The Greek Prime Minister just announced that the lockdown measures will continue past the current end-date of April 6. The new end-date is May 10. The measures will then begin to gradually be lifted if the conditions allow.
Of course, there is no guarantee but people in Greece feel upbeat since the measures weâre all taking seem to be keeping new covid-19 cases relatively low. Thank goodness.
Weâre buying the Greek National Health Service time to prepare in case we do have an uptick in a couple of weeks. Theyâve been securing more medical supplies while equipping and staffing hospitals at full throttle.
Hopefully, these wonât be needed and weâll be able to send more support to countries that need it most.
Keep staying safe, everybody!
PS. If you can think of anything that we can do to help you feel better and get through these days and weeks, please PM me.
hi, havenât been in the site for a while, but now want to send my best wahes to everybody. we are booked to fly to thassos end of August, hopefully that will Happen. we are in contact with Christos who owns the loutrou Bungalows in kinira, where we have been staying numerous Times and are very much looking forward to. weâll have to wait and see. we are in germany and from next week will have a slight Lift from the lockdown. hopefully itâs not too early for that.
wishing everybody to stay healthy and safe. hopefully thassos will stay corona free and we all will be enjoying âourâ island again soon.
Hey Augie,
Hope youâve had a lovely Easter week despite the lockdown.
Just wondered how our favourite island is doing, is it still COVID free? Our lockdown as you may know is extended until may 7 so far but I think it will be much longer than that before we anywhere near back to normal.
Hope you and your loved ones are all well and safe xx
Hi Hobglobin and Leanne!
What you both said brought such a big smile to my face⌠âThassos is our islandâ. Indeed it is!
Thanks very much to you both for the warm wishes. Easter was very different for everybody this year, even for this guy in a Greek city!! 
As I walked through the olive groves this sunny Easter Sunday for exercise in Limenas, my senses were greeted by a plethora of mouth-watering smells from barbecues, plumes of smoke visible in every direction.
Friends and families could not get together but this didnât stop people from enjoying a good cookout at their homes!
Normally I would hear dancing and cheering coming from parties around the village, morning till night. This year, it was fairly muted but everybody celebrated in the best possible way under our circumstances⌠with good food, good drink, and no coronavirus!
Yes, our little island is still coronavirus-free! Weâre doing our best to keep it that way for all of you who hope to join us this year. 
Hobgoblin, we wish you the best of luck with the lifting of lockdown measures in Germany. We hope you will have good results and give the world a positive example to follow!
In Greece, the measures have worked well and weâll slowly begin to lift them in May. Weâre now focused on developing a strategy to safely and responsibly open Greece, and our little island, for holidays by this June or July.
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Great description. Took me back to my 50th birthday in Thassos at the old Zorbas in 2003. Local people also attended dancing. This was photo I put on Thassos Forum. Hopefully adding this will not cause any problem. http://www.thassos-forum.com/viewtopic.php?p=7958#7958.
Next day we went to panagia and walked back down steep road to Golden Beach and same group of Thassos people who had been also celbrating at Zorbas were in house having afternoon party gathering at property and as your description I recalled the mouth-watering smells of food from that party and music and voices. 16 years ago seems like 6 months. Best regards Steve
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Greece made the national news in UK last night as a prime example of a country which responded quickly to the current pandemic and undertook stringent measured which the country responded to.
Well done Greece!
Keep dancing, in isolation, in the streets.
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Sat in the back garden having a vodka and coke, sunny and warmish, BUT should have arrived in Thassos this afternoon for the first time, sad but will make it some time in the future, stay safe.
Hello
I have a reservation in Golden Beach starting with May 30.
What are travel rules there? would it be possible considering that we come from Romania?
Hi Cristina
According to the latest government announcements, it depends on where you reserved.
If you reserved a holiday rental (apartment, house, etc.) then there are no restrictions.
If you reserved at a hotel or establishment that is designated âYear-Roundâ then you will need to wait until June 1st because that is when they will be allowed to open.
If you reserved at a hotel or establishment that is designated âSeasonalâ then you will need to wait until the middle or end of June, or July 1st. They will decide this soon.
The Greek government is currently in talks with Bulgaria, Romania, and other countries about opening the borders in a responsible way so people may safely travel. Greece hopes they will be open by the end of May and itâs possible that only the Promachonas border crossing will open initially.
So if the borders are opened by May 30, and if you have a reservation at a holiday rental, then you will be free to come to Thassos on May 30.
If you made a reservation at a hotel, please contact them directly and ask if they will be open on June 1. If yes, then you will need to change your arrival date to June 1.
Please let me know if thereâs anything else youâd like to know and I will try my best to find out for you.
Hi Augie, thatâs very interesting thanks.
So far our problem is going to be uk restrictions, they are taking about people coming into the country having to isolate for 2 weeks. I for one and I wonât be alone couldnât possibly take 4 weeks off work for a 2 week holiday
Hi Leanne
Indeed it isnât feasible for most people to take 4 weeks off for a 2-week holiday. Sometimes people say that they need a vacation after their vacation but I donât think they mean this! lol
At the moment this is a major talking point between Greece, the EU, UK, and other countries.
The UK government has already made two exceptions for France and Ireland. People wonât be subject to the 2-week self-isolation from those two countries. We hope that Greece will be added to that list since it is a low-risk country.
Of course, this also means you could probably get around the quarantine by traveling to Ireland or France first when returning to the UK.
The Greek government will make its next round of official announcements next Monday, May 18th. Hopefully, an agreement between Greece and the UK will be reached by then. fingers crossed
yes I just read about exceptions with France. Iâm hoping that we will be able to travel in September as planned after all. I canât imagine why greece wouldnât be considered low case since youâve had fewer cases than France.
Is Thassos still covid free?
Thassos is still free of any covid-19 case. I am sure that Greece will be one of the places to visit. And the hot sand and the sun are two coronavirus killers.
Hi Gregory,
I think social distances and being outside which does reduce germs and contamination in the air quicker than being inside helps but if you look at Mexico which is suffering from it with temperatures of 88f, heat does not mean one is free of it.