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At least 92 members of the medical and nursing staff in Greece’s biggest hospital Evangelismos in Athens have tested positive for the coronavirus in recent days. The infected staff is sent to quarantine at home, while the management banned patients visitors for two weeks. Evangelismos Hospital has restricted visitors for …

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Greece’s National Health Care Organization (EODY) issued on Thursday new guidelines for people who are infected with Covid-19 or have been exposed to the virus through a confirmed case. The guidelines refer to time of quarantine and the use of mask for the general population and for health workers. For …

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Daily Efimerida Ton Syntakton alleged on Wednesday that by order of the head of Civil Protection members of a Turkish basketball team were allowed in the country without obligatory quarantine although they had symptoms of Covid-19. In the published text messages between officials at the Athens airport, it is further …

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A baby was born positive with Covid-19 to a mother who was infected with the coronavirus. The birth took place in Attica Hospital in Athens on Friday. It is the first time that a pregnant woman has passed the virus to her unborn or newborn baby, Greek media report. The …

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22 people have been infected with Covid-19 in a nursing home in Thessaloniki, the second in the same city in northern Greece within a week. 15 of the infected are elderly and 7 are employees. Broader tests were immediately ordered after an 80-year-old developed fever on Tuesday. The management of …

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Greek health authorities are on alert and highly concerned about the increase of confirmed coronavirus cases among tourists, especially on the islands. A total of ten tourists, nine foreign nationals and one Greek, have been found positive to Covid-19 and are on the islands of Thassos, Naxos, Evia and Corfu. …

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A couple that had arrived in Greece form Germany broke the 14-day quarantine ordered by the authorities and had contact with a friendly couple. The effect: a pregnant woman, her husband and their 2-year-old child got contaminated with Covid-19. The Greek couple, aged 25 and 26, had arrived from Germany …

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Seven people lost their lives within one week following complications of a flu infection, increasing the death toll to eight, Greece’s National Public Health Agency (EODY) said on Thursday. At the same time, 24 people are hospitalized in Intensive Care Units Flu infections are expected to increase in the coming …

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One elderly woman from Argolida in Eastern Peloponnese died from West Nile virus infection on Wednesday.  She is the first victim this year of the disease that is transited through the bite of a mosquito infected with the virus. The 90-year-old woman was infected with the West Nile virus, got …

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Eight refugee children aged 2-18 years old are being hospitalized after they were diagnosed to have been infected with Hepatitis A. All the children were residents of refugee center in Nea Kavala and are now hospitalized in Kilkis, northern Greece. “The virus is transmitted orally, from food, from hands, from …

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A suspected outbreak of gastroenteritis of the new E.coli was reportedly found in a German tourist on vaccation on an Ionian Greek island. According to radio Vima 99,5 FM, the 53-year-old tourist was spending her vacation on the island of Paxoi. She suffered of bloody diarrhea and complained to the …

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