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With the first cases in Mykonos or Icaria, the Greek islands, true medical deserts hundreds of kilometers from the continent, are concerned about the threat of the coronavirus, fearing that their isolation will prevent them from fighting the disease.

"The smaller the island you are escaping to, the harder and even impossible to manage the disease will be," Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis warned on March 19, before decreeing general population confinement.

 For two weeks, only permanent residents have been allowed to go to the islands. The others, to be able to board, must take a copy of the tax declaration as proof that they are domiciled.

Some Athenians and foreigners have managed to evade the ban and move to the paradisiacal islands of the Aegean Sea to spend their confinement in them, hoping to protect themselves from the pandemic that has caused 57 deaths from more than 1,500 diagnosed cases in Greece.

But in the small Greek islands, doctors and resuscitation teams are scarce. To evacuate the sick from the 200 inhabited islands, the emergency medical service has five helicopters.