"The Mitsotakis' government bears the guilt for the health tragedy the country is experiencing. They must leave," said main opposition SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance spokesperson Nassos Iliopoulos in a post on Twitter on Wednesday.

Specifically he said that "Greece is steadily at twice the EU average in terms of losses relative to its population," while adding that when this happened during the fourth and fifth wave of the pandemic, it was no longer possible to talk of bad handling or being taken by surprise but only of a "political choice".