Sydney-born infectious diseases expert Sotiris Tsiodras has become a national hero in Greece for helping control the spread of COVID-19 and avoid the tragically high infection and death rates experienced in Spain and Italy.
While some Greeks admit they do not typically like to follow rules, Greek Australians living in the country’s capital cities and on islands have told The Sun-Herald they have embraced Dr Tsiodras’ advice on strict infection control measures.
Infectious diseases expert and Greek health ministry spokesman, Sotiris Tsiodras.Credit:ANA-MPA
A professor of medicine and infectious diseases at an Athens university, Dr Tsiodras, 54, has been widely credited for alerting the Greek government of the need to act quickly to COVID-19 to avoid the plight of countries such as France, Italy and Spain.
Each night at 6pm, the professor appears on television screens to update Greeks on the latest infection rates, fatalities and outbreaks. Italy’s La Figaro newspaper called him the “new darling of the Greeks”, while Melbourne’s Greek newspaper Neos Kosmos described him Greece’s “man of the moment”. Greece’s Ekathimerini publication named the softly spoken professor as the most popular person in Greece according to a poll conducted for Alpha TV.
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