Organizers of the Delphi Economic Forum have postpone the event scheduled to begin on March 5, 2020, due to the coronavirus. According to a statement, organizers said, they postponed the Economic Forum, following yesterday’s [Friday] announcement by the World Health Organization, which upgraded the coronavirus risk assessment (Covid 19). The …

Greek authorities are trying to identify and locate everyone who came into contact with “patient zero”, the 38-year-old woman confirmed to be the first person infected with the coronavirus in the country. The woman is quarantine and in negative pressure room in AHEPA hospital in Thessaloniki, northern Greece. The woman, …

Extensive clashes erupted overnight on islands of Lesvos and Chios and continue on Tuesday, with local authorities and residents trying to prevent the arrival of riot police, water canons and excavating machines to be used to build new closed migration centers. The forces arrived by ferries chartered by the government. …

Greece’s Health Ministry is on high alert and particularly concerned after the sharp increase of corona virus infections in  Italy over the last few days. Preparing preventive measures at the gateways to neighboring country, the ministry has called for an extraordinary emergency meeting early Sunday evening. Staff of shipping companies …

Two Greek nationals, passengers on cruise ship “Diamond Princess,” were repatriated on Saturday morning and transferred to a hospital in Athens where they will remain in preventive quarantine for 14 days. The two Greeks were ‘trapped’ in the cruise ship since early February. The ship initially carried 3,700 passengers and crew …

One Greek national is among the Europeans evacuated from Wuhan with a special flight chartered by France. Among the passengers were many French and dozens of other European citizens. On passenger showed symptoms suspected to cornavirus during the flight. The plane landed in Istres military base in Southern France, 50 …