April 23, 2021
Arts, Culture, FEATURED
DIOR will organize fashion show in Athens on June 17, the French luxury fashion house announced on Friday. It will present its newest “Cruise” collection and pay a tribute to the iconic photo shooting on the Acropolis 70 years ago. “The House has chosen Athens, an exceptional destination – the …
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April 17, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
Dozens of corona-police were deployed at Varnavas Square in Pangrati district of Athens on Friday to prevent young people from hanging out there and crowd on a spring night outside their homes. Some 100 police, members of a corps with the incredible name “Management and Delimitation of Gatherings Squads” established …
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April 15, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
A delivery-man has been arrested as suspect to have stolen a vial with anti-covid vaccine from a vaccination center in northern Athens. The 46-year-old man is been accused by the doctors of the center in Agia Paraskevi suburb of northern Athens. According to media reports, the man works for a …
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April 9, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
After months of Athenian commuters crowding in public transport means amid an ongoing pandemic, the first 40 additional buses are finally ready to strengthen the public transport system. The buses are leased and part of a broader plan to “radically” upgrade the public transport of Greek capital Athens where millions …
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April 8, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
Greek Police investigates the mysterious death of a Covid-19 patient on ventilator outside the Intensive Care Unit of a big hospital in Athens. Authorities do not rule out a criminal act committed by another patient, also treated for Covid-19 who was in the same ward. According to media, the 76-year-old …
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March 31, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
A pulmonary edema was the cause of the death of a woman who died short after a vaccine on Tuesday an autopsy has shown. “It is the macroscopic image of an old myocardial infarction and pulmonary edema under further laboratory investigation,” medical examiner Nikos Kalogrias reportedly said on Wednesday. He …
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March 30, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
Greece’s health authorities have been set on alert on Tuesday after a 65-year-old woman died half an hour after she received a vaccination against Covid-19. According to estate-broadcaster ERt, the woman had her vaccination at the Health Center of Ilion, suburb of western Athens, around 1 o’ clock noon. Following …
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March 29, 2021
Refugees
Authorities at the Athens international airport arrested nine Syrian nationals with forged travel documents. The group dressed in sports outfit was posing as a volleyball team. According to police, the nine young men had fake identity cards of a foreign country. They wore matching sports uniforms, to look like a …
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March 29, 2021
Arts, Culture, FEATURED
Greece’s newly refurbished National Gallery-Alexandros Soutsos Museum in Athens is ready to welcome visitors when epidemiological data allows for the opening of all museums, the Greek Culture Ministry said in a statement issued on Friday. The emblematic works for the expansion and renovation of the building “impressed visitors and spectators …
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March 25, 2021
Greece, Politics
Athens Mayor Costas Bakoyannis presented Prince Charles of Wales with the Medal of Value of the City of Athens at a special ceremony that took place Thursday. The city’s highest honor recognizes “a proven friend of Greece and Hellenism, and especially a friend of Athens, its history and its civilization,” …
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March 24, 2021
Greece, Politics
Four thousand policemen on the streets, traffic restrictions and closed metro stations as well as banning of any schedule protests are the measures Greek Police has taken for the undisturbed course of special events where Greek state leaders and foreign dignitaries will celebrate the Greek Independence Day on March 25 …
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March 17, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
Hospitals in Athens and Attica are on Red Alert due to increase of coronavirus infections and intubated patients wait in normal wards for an ICU bed The Greek government admitted on Wednesday that thε public health care system is “beleaguered by an increase of Covid-patients.” According to Hospital workers’ union …
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March 11, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED, Greece
Greece will hold the military parade on March 25 and “the quality event” will be live broadcast, government spokesperson Aristotelia Peloni said on Thursday. At the same time, she announced that the annual student parades commemorating the start of the Greek War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire in 1821 …
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March 10, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
Health Minister Vassilis Kikilias appealed to private doctors on Wednesday to join the public health system currently under immense pressure due to spike of coronavirus infections and hospitalizations. The Minister offered incentives to doctors like a monthly salary of 2,000 euros which will not be taxed or confiscated in case …
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March 9, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
Two private clinics in Athens are being mobilized to treat Covid-19 patients as public hospitals in the Greek capital struggle with increased admissions and intubations. Health Minister Vassilis Kikilias announced on Tuesday that the Athens Medical group’s unit in Peristeri and the private Leto maternity clinic will be will be …
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March 8, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
Α 37-day-old baby infected with Covid-19 passed away on Monday. The youngest fatality in Greece was struggling for life intubated in Children’s Hospital Aglaia Kyriakou in Athens since February 17. Despite doctors’ efforts it didn’t make it and his health was deteriorating day by day. The boy had no underlying …
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March 7, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, Greece, Politics
Sunday at the central square of Nea Smyrni was supposed to be relaxed for the residents of the suburb in southern Athens, but turned ugly when police terrorized families with children and brutally beat peaceful citizens who were standing by. Batons fell on peaceful citizens for no reason in another …
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March 5, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
The dramatic situation that prevails in the hospitals of the Greek capital is reflected in a letter by the director in Internal Medicine at “Agia Olga” hospital in Nea Ionia suburb of western Athens. In his letter to the hospital management and colleagues where he announced his resignation, Dr Ioannis …
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March 3, 2021
Greece, Politics
French President Emmanuel Macron and his spouse Brigitte will attend the annual military parade in Athens on March 25 that this year coincides with the bicentennial celebrations for the beginning of the Greek War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire in 1821. Daily kathimerini reported the news adding that as …
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March 2, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED, Uncategorized
Intensive Care Units in hospitals in Attica have reached 95% of their capacity on Tuesday morning, with Covid-19 admissions on the rise and a significant increase over the weekend. In seven hospitals capacity has reached even 100%. State broadcaster ERT reported on Tuesday morning, that in three of the biggest …
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