After Wednesday evening’s shock announcement that Symi, Tilos, Halki and Kastellorizon were going to be under the same Deep Red restrictions as Rhodes, by virture of being part of the same municipality, Symi parents received messages from the schools to say that their children had to revert to on line home learning with immediate effect. The Mayors of Tilos and Kastellorizon hit the phones to high places, pointing out that in the case of their particular islands their populations had already received their first vaccinations and various mixed messages were received by local authorities seeking clarification. By late morning on Thursday it was confirmed that while Rhodes is to go under the same Deep Red restrictions, Symi, Kastellorizon, Tilos and Halki were now exempt.
As I understand it, this means that our curfew remains at 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. and the primary school children can go back to school. Other restrictions, however, remain in place as the amendments to movement regulations are countrywide, regardless of which shade of red one is on the map.
This could, of course, all be different by tomorrow…
Adriana Shum 
Dear Ms. Shum, thank you very much for this very helpful and descriptive information. I’m a frequent visitor to Symi, now frustrated, with friends trying to plan travel there for more than a year now. Reading your post, it’s clear that the situation remains very unsettled in Symi and in Greece overall. We’ll be there as soon as we can safely travel. Best regards,
Peter Banning
San Rafael, California