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Handful of police officers to carry body cameras in pilot program

Greek Police is outfitting some officers with body-worn cameras as part of a pilot program initiated in response to accusations of heavy-handed police tactics to quash street protests. About 20 officers of the motorcycle police unit DRASI and the crime prevention and suppression team (OPKE) will wear the new cameras, …

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Covid-19: Doctors’ Federation calls on Gov’t to revoke transfer of resident doctors to private clinics

Hospitals doctors call on the Health Ministry to revoke its decision for the transfer of resident doctors from public hospitals in Athens to a private clinic that accepted to treat Covid-19 patients. According to a statement by the Greek Federation of Hospital Doctors (OEGNE) five resident doctors from Laiko (2), …

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Authorities extend hard lockdown in Athens/Attica, place more regions in stricter measures

Greece’s Civil Protection extended the hard lockdown in Athens and Attica for one more week, until March 8, 2021, as daily number of new infections remained high and intensive care units treating patients with Covid-19 were close to capacity. At the same time, authorities extended hard lockdown in several regional …

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Greece’s Justice Ministry submits draft bill on equal custody of children

The Greek Justice Ministry has submitted a draft bill introducing equal custody of children in cases of divorce. The bill aims to put an end to fights over custody and to focus on the children, whose interests lie at the heart of the bill, the minister stressed. The bill’s provisions …

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Snowfall in Athens disrupts public transport, leave thousands without power, halts vaccinations

Thousands of households in dozens of suburbs in Athens are without electricity for over 14 hours, some even without water. Public transport in Greek capital collapsed due to snowfall that is claimed to be the “heaviest in the last 15 years.” Covid-19 vaccinations have been suspended. Supermarkets will close at …

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Snow front Medea closes national highway, causes extensive power outages

Snow and freezing temperatures also in capital Athens have paralyzed the Greek south mainland after police ordered the closure of the south part of the national highway connecting the Greek capital with the north of the country. Police closed the national network from the Kalyftaki junction in Kato Kifissia, subrub …

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Greece – Israel: “Vaccination passport” and trials in Covid-19 drug

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu agreed on a “digital vaccination passport” and as it looks also for the participation of Greece in clinical trials regarding the medicine for Covid-19. Netanyahu had a surprised for his Greek guest and pulled out of his pocket a vial with …

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Greece: 733 new coronavirus cases, 21 deaths, 403 mutations

Greece’s health authorities announced on Sunday evening 733 new coronavirus cases and 21 more deaths in the past 24 hours. Increased by 13 to 269 is the number of Covid-19 patients intubated in hospitals across the country. The stand is similar to the one on December 4, 2020. Death toll …

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Body of Iraqi pilot recovered following small plane crash in NW Greece

The debris of a training plane missing since Sunday and the body of the pilot were found on Thursday. Search and rescue teams located the body of the 32-year-old pilot in a ravine at the top of Mitsikeli mountain near the city of Ioannina, Epirus in north-western Greece. via epirustv …

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Greece: 1,151 new coronavirus cases, 27 more deaths; Tsiodras warns

New coronavirus cases in Greece remain over 1000 for a second consecutive day as authorities announced on Wednesday evening 1,151 detected cases in the last 24 hours. In the same time, 27 more people lost their lives due to Covid-19, among them a 16-year-old girl, the youngest victim in the …

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Four French Rafale jets in Greece for joint exercise “Skyros 2021”

Four Rafale fighter jets of the French Air Force arrived in Tanagra air base by Athens ahead of the joint exercise “Skyros 2021” with Mirage 2000 and F-16 the Greek Air Force. This is the “official first” of the French Rafale in the Greek skies after France and Greece signed …

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