July 6, 2022
Society, Very Mix
Greece’s National Health Care organization EODY announced the death of a child from acute hepatitis on Wednesday afternoon. The victim was a baby just 13-months old. It is the first death of acute hepatitis recorded in the country. EODY statement: Today, the first death of a child was recorded in …
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June 20, 2022
Social, Society
“Both children suffered a suffocating death attributed to a criminal activity.” The ultimate report by two medical examiners on the death of the two youngest children, Malena and Iris, of Pispirikou-Daskalakis family from Patras, was delivered to the Homicide Department of Attica Security on Monday. According to the finding, both …
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June 20, 2022
Society, Very Mix
Search and Rescue operation continues south of Mykonos on Monday, as eight passengers on board of the sailing boat carrying migrants are still missing. Among the missing people are three children. Six human traffickers were arrested. According to local media, those people still missing are aged: 3, 8, 15, 23, …
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May 22, 2022
Society, Very Mix
The Greek Coast Guard successfully carried out a search and rescue operation with two of its vessels north-east off the island of Rhodes on Sunday, rescuing 21 migrants from a sinking dinghy. Adverse weather conditions were in the area during the SAR operation, with winds blowing with intensity of 6 …
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May 12, 2022
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
Three children with symptoms of acute hepatitis have been detected in Greece, the National Health Care Organization EODY announced on Thursday afternoon. It is the first cases of acute hepatitis in children in the country. “Following an active search for cases, three cases of children with acute hepatitis were identified …
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May 8, 2022
Society, Very Mix
One hundred and six migrants, including 20 children, were located by the Greek Coast Guard in a rocky area northwest of the island of Kos late on Saturday.Kos and were transferred to the Kos Identification Center. A sailing boat was found to have half-sunk on the shore where the migrants …
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April 27, 2022
Greece, Politics
Τik Tok took down a video showing main opposition leader and former Prime Minister, left-wing Alexis Tsipras, playing basketball with children from the SOS Village in Vari, East Attica, on the Easter Sunday. According to SYRIZA affiliated daily “Avgi”, the 13-second-long video in question received massive reports which claimed “violation …
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April 22, 2022
Society, Very Mix
Greek Health Authorities are further investigating the case of a child suspected of the acute hepatitis, a syndrome that has affected children in the UK, Spain, The Netherlands and the USA. The 9-year-old child, resident of Athens, had manifested some symptoms such as fever and increased liver indicators. According to …
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April 18, 2022
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
Due to the unusually high incidence of acute hepatitis in children in United Kingdom, Greece’s health care organization EODY issued an announcement on Monday in which it calls on clinical doctors in the country to be vigilant. There have been no cases of the pediatric hepatitis, so far, EODY stated. …
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April 5, 2022
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
Greece’s National Vaccination Committee gave the green light for the 4th dose of vaccination against Covid-19 for citizens over 60 years old as well as for vulnerable groups including children. “Those who got sick with Covid after the third dose (booster shot) will not need the fourth dose,” Committee’s president …
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April 5, 2022
Greece, Politics
Greece has offered to provide treatment to Ukrainian children suffering from cancer. Health Minister Thanos Plevris made this offer to his Ukrainian counterpart Victor Liashko through a teleconference. The main topic of discussion was the transfer of children suffering from cancer, as well as their families, from Ukraine to the …
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March 5, 2022
FEATURED, Social, Society, Uncategorized
The main suspect for the quadruple murder of a family including of two toddlers in Andravida was arrested late Friday night. The 60 year-old landlord has reportedly shot the parents and suffocated the children over “unpaid rent,” as he claimed. Police, however, investigates also a racist motive. Media report on …
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March 2, 2022
Society, Very Mix
A tragedy took place in north-western Peloponnese, where a man, his wife and two underage children were brutally killed on Wednesday evening. One 10-year-old child, a boy, from the mother’s previous marriage survived the carnage because he was not at home when the tragedy took place in the family’s home …
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February 24, 2022
FEATURED, Social, Society
A mother and her two minor children died in a fire that broke out in their home in Thessaloniki early Wednesday morning. The 32-year-old mother reportedly tried to open the house door and take the children aged 8 and 11 out of the burning house but she died before she …
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January 11, 2022
CORONAVIRUS
Young people under 18 years of age do not have to get a booster shot, unless they suffer from reduced immunity due to medication or some illness, National Vaccination Committee chair Maria Theodoridou said on Monday. During a regular briefing, Theodoridou also said that children and teenagers who have contracted …
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January 7, 2022
Refugees
The bodies of two children are among the four washed up on the beaches of the islands of Naxos and Paros in the central Aegean Sea on Thursday. The children are girls and estimated to be 12-13 years old. The Greek Coast Guard estimates they belong to the victims of …
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December 27, 2021
FEATURED, Social, Society
Death by heating: Sunday morning thick, black smoke comes out of a two-storey house in Metaxourgeio district of downtown Athens. Parents and children run in panic to escape the flames, neighbors and passersby rush to help until the fire brigades arrive. Hand in hand they take the children out of …
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December 14, 2021
Social, Society
Τwo children died and a toddler was seriously injured in a house fire in Kamatero suburb of North-West Athens on Tuesday morning. The bodies of two boys aged 12 and 13 were found in the bedroom by fire fighters called to the scene by neighbors. The 2-year-old child was carried …
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December 7, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Anti-vaxxer parents who do not send their children to school will be punished with up to 2 years imprisonment and fines, the Greek Education Ministry ruled in an amendment submitted to the Palriament late on Tuesday. The tough measure comes as parents and guardians who oppose vaccinations against Covid-19 and …
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November 11, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
Prosecutors in northern Greece investigate a family of anti-vaxxers but also monks on Mouth Athos opposing vaccinations. Authorities intervened after a father of six told media that he does not send his children to school due to the Covid-tests obligation and the masks. On Mt Athos, it was the abbot …
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