Lockdown strolls: Crowds of people go for a Sunday walk while hospitals overwhelmed by Covid-19 cases 22/11/2020 | Efforts to keep distances by crowds of people who went for a walk or to exercise at the seafront of Thessaloniki, while daily cases are recorded by the hundreds in the city and hospitals are suffocated by patients with respiratory problems due to COVID-19 disease. Footage shows policemen respond as sitting on benches is forbidden, and the only justified reason to be out is to exercise individually or in pairs. Thessaloniki has been the capital of the... coronavirus in Greece for almost a month now, but the sunny Sunday in combination with the weeks-long quarantine pushed citizens en masse to come out for a break, even for a while.