May 3, 2022
CORONAVIRUS, Economy
Mid-season sales kick off in Greece on Tuesday, May 3 and customers must no longer show a Covid-Pass such a vaccination or recovery certificate or a negative Rapid test to enter retail shops for their purchases. Mid-season sales run until May 15, 2022, and retail shops will be open also …
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April 28, 2022
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED, Tourism, Travel
Greece’s Epidemiologists Committee decided on Thursday to recommend the suspension of Covid-Pass and European Digital Covid-Certificate (EUDCC) from May 1, 2022. The suspension affects vaccinated and unvaccinated citizens in the country but also tourists arriving in Greece. Details will be clarified in the forthcoming joint ministerial decision. But roughly seen …
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April 13, 2022
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
Life in Greece will return to normal as of May 1, Health Minister Thanos Plevris announced on Wednesday adding that the measure of showing a Covid-Pass to enter facilities and retail stores will be lifted on May 1, while the measure of mandatory mask indoors will be abolished on June …
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April 12, 2022
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
Greece’s Health Minister, Thanos Plevris, said on Tuesday that the pandemic “conditions allow us to proceed with the suspension of the protection measures from May 1st.” The measures to be lifted are the Covid-Pass, that is the certificate for vaccination and recovery from Covid-19, as well as the mandatory use …
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April 1, 2022
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
Greece will change the expiration period of vaccination and Covid-disease certificates, the so-called Covid-Pass, in order to comply with the European Union directives, Health Minister Thanos Plevris said on Friday morning. “Expiration of the vaccination certificate after the second vaccine dose will be after 9 months and not 7as it …
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March 31, 2022
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
With the daily coronavirus infections again on the rise, the Epidemiologists’ Committee recommended at their meeting on Wednesday that no further measures will be lifted until Easter, April 24, 2022 This means that both the Covid-Pass and the mandatory use of masks indoors will remain in force until at least …
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March 27, 2022
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
Greece’s epidemiologists have outlined a road map for the lifting of protection measures against the coronavirus and these include the abolishing of the Covid-Pass as well as the mandatory use of mask in closed spaces, media report on Sunday. However, the lifting of measures will much depend on the course …
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March 20, 2022
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
Member of Greece’s Epidemiologists’ Committee advising the Health Ministry, assistant epidemiology professor Gikas Majorkinis said on Sunday that the Covid-Pass will most likely be abolished before Easter, which this year is on April 24. Speaking to state broadcaster ERT, he said that the vaccination certificate will be abolished by Easter, …
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November 25, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED, Tourism, Travel
Τhe European Union said on Thursday that the EU Covid-Pass for cross-border travel will expire nine months after the last vaccine dose. A booster shot will be required to extend the certificate’s validity. In a travel recommendation unveiled on Thursday afternoon, the European Commission updated the rules of the COVID- …
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November 19, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
Following the new Covid-measures for unvaccinated citizens and those over 60 years old announced by Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Thursday a new and very complicated every day life goes in effect from Monday, November 22, 2021. There are activities where all citizens, vaccinated, unvaccinated or recovered from Covid-19 …
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April 14, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED, Tourism
European Union countries formally agreed on Wednesday to launch COVID travel passes as a step towards reopening to tourism this summer and will negotiate details with the bloc’s lawmakers in May, two diplomatic sources said. The certificates would allow those vaccinated, recovered from COVID-19 or with negative test results to …
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