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The government is activating its confidential Artemis plan to tackle the Covid-19 virus, with the mobilization - possibly on Friday - of two new operational centers coordinated by the General Secretariat for Civil Protection, with a third in the process of being set up to have a supervisory role.

Four people are detained during a police operation on Saturday morning to evacuate a squat in central Athens, state-run news agency ANA-MPA reported.

The listed, three-story building, located at the corner of Maromateon and Derigny, belongs to the nearby Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB), and had been occupied by anarchists for about 13 years, the report said.

Athens police headquarters (GADA) has launched a new training program for officers to improve security at potential targets in the capital such as the Iranian Embassy which was attacked last month by members of the anarchist group Rouvikonas.

Greek police and the Citizens' Protection Ministry are creating a new intelligence service in an attempt to upgrade the country's data gathering and processing capabilities.