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The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA) have updated public health recommendations on the use of additional booster doses of COVID-19 vaccines this summer and in the upcoming autumn and winter seasons. The updated recommendations come amid increasing rates of COVID-19 reporting …

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The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) issued an update on Wednesday, May 11, 2022, to the health safety measures for air travel, paving the way for a relaxation of the need to wear medical masks on board a flight, but …

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There is a “very high” risk the Omicron variant of Covid-19 will become dominant in Europe by early next year and lead to a growing number of hospital admissions and deaths, the European Union’s public health body said on Wednesday. The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) said …

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Greece remains among the ten EU countries where the Covid-19 situation is deemed of “very high concern,” the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) said on Friday. Assessing the situation up to last Sunday, November 7, the ECDC’s most recent risk assessment said “the overall epidemiological situation in …

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With under 4 million doses of a Covid-19 vaccine administered, Greece ranks sixth behind Slovenia, Romania, Croatia, Latvia and Bulgaria in uptake, according to the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). The ECDC’s Covid-19 Vaccine Tracker on Friday showed that uptake in Greece stands at 29.5% for one …

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Greece is the only country in European Union, next to Finland, that has several regions marked with “green” on the latest map issued by the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) charting the spread of the coronavirus. Finland has just one region. Epirus in northwestern Greece, the Ionian …

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Greece is now marked green in the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) maps for the coronavirus as the test positivity rate of the COVID-19 fell below 4 percent and the notification rate is lower than 25 cases per 100 000 people. The maps are based on data …

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The SARS-Cov-2 epidemiological burden in most of Greece continues to be at very low to medium levels, according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control’s (ECDC) assessment of the pandemic’s levels in Europe on Friday. Specifically, southern Greece and Eastern Macedonia and Thrace are at very low risk.  …

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