January 5, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
Several municipalities in Attica have recorded an increase in coronavirus infections as recent analysis of the sewage has shown. Health experts are highly concerned about this development following a relaxation of the lockdown over the Christmas and New Year days. Ten municipalities, including Perama, Keratsini and Drapetsona, are now reportedly …
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December 11, 2020
CORONAVIRUS
Greek health authorities decided on Friday to increase random testing for coronavirus in west Attica and intensify checks for compliance with the health measures as the viral load in the area remained high. Deputy Civil Protection Minister Nikos Hardalias said at the daily briefing on the course of the pandemic …
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December 8, 2020
CORONAVIRUS
The regional governor of the Kilkis, north-eastern Greece, said on Tuesday that a spike in the new number of infections reported in the northern Greek region on Monday was the result of a mistake a private diagnostic laboratory in Thessaloniki has made. In a statement, regional governor Andreas Vergidis said …
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November 29, 2020
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED, Greece
Two conservative mainstream newspapers set the management of the pandemic in Greece on fire on Sunday as they published reports alleging that there is a second system of registration of Covid-19 patients in the country. The reports imply that neither the epidemiologists who analyze the pandemic data and recommend measures …
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October 30, 2020
CORONAVIRUS
Microbiology Professor and member of Greece’s coronavirus expert committee warned on Friday morning that given the current rate of transmission, new infections could reach and pass the 2,000 mark this weekend. Speaking to Skai TV, Professor Alakiviadis Vatopoulos said that new daily infections appear to be doubling on a weekly …
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September 7, 2020
Refugees
health authorities have confirmed 17 coronavirus cases at the hotspot of Moria, Migration and Asylum Minister Notis Mitarakis announced on Tuesday morning. In the last three days, teams from National Health Care Organization (EODY)have received samples from 2,000 refugees and asylum-seekers and so far the test results form 1,600 are …
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August 20, 2020
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
Greece’s health authorities are increasingly concerned about a spike of coronavirus infections among the health workers in the country’s hospitals. Infected are doctors and nurses, even in clinics designated to deal with Covid-19 patients only. According to the union of hospital workers POEDIN, 70 health workers have been tested positive …
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August 18, 2020
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
Tourism is not to blame for the resurgence of the pandemic in Greece, 83% of the cases are domestic, head of the Civil Protection Nikos Hardalias said on Tuesday during the weekly live briefing on the course of the coronavirus. Together with deputy Health Minister Vassilis Kontozamanis, dismissed reports that …
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August 13, 2020
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
A live music concert with 2,000 people in a beach bar of Halkidiki peninsula triggered lots of coronavirus infections in the neighboring Thessaloniki including 33 elderly in a nursing home. According to locals media, three of the bartenders were tested positive. President of Medical Association of Halkidiki, Marios Pyrpasopoulos told …
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August 3, 2020
Very Mix
The West Nile virus has claimed the lives of two people this summer in Greece and infected ten others. An infected woman passed away on Monday morning in Serres, northern Greece. She was diagnosed with the virus a week ago. The elderly woman was the second fatality caused by the …
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July 22, 2020
CORONAVIRUS
Greek health authorities announced three more deaths and 32 new confirmed coronavirus cases on Wednesday evening. Among the new cases, 14 were detected among tourists. With 5 deaths in the last 36 hours, death toll reached the mark of 200 people since the outbreak in late February. The number of …
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June 10, 2020
CORONAVIRUS, Editor, Opinion
Greek authorities are concerned about Greeks infected with coronavirus who return to the country from abroad, and most important, they break the imposed quarantine and spread the virus to locals. But it’s not only the Greeks from abroad who don’t observe what they should. It is also the local youngsters …
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May 5, 2020
CORONAVIRUS
Alarm in AHEPA hospital in Thessaloniki on Monday after two asymptomatic patients were tested positive to COVID-19. The patients, a 70-year-old woman and an 81-year-old man, were already hospitalized for health issues other than of the coronavirus, and thus without specific safety measures for several days. Worth noting that AHEPA …
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March 14, 2020
CORONAVIRUS, Very Mix
Greece’s authorities announced the death of two coronavirus patients on Saturday morning. Both victims are men in West Macedonia and the island of Zakynthos. One of the victims was a 90-year-old man hospitalized since a couple of days in the ICU of Ptolemaida hospital in West Macedonia. In the same …
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February 16, 2020
CORONAVIRUS, Very Mix
Health Minister Vassilis Kikkilias announced the repatriation of two Greeks on board of the cruise ship Diamond Princess, currently in quarantine in Yokohama, Japan. 355 passengers and crew have been infected with the new coronavirus COVID-19. “In cooperation with the Foreign Ministry and all relevant agencies, we are already coordinating …
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September 19, 2019
Very Mix
25 people have lost their lives since the beginning of the mosquitoes season in Greece due to complication of infection with the West Nile virus. According to the weekly report by the National Public Health Organization, a total of 195 people have been infected with the virus, while 121 of …
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September 6, 2019
Very Mix
The West Nile virus has claimed a total of 15 lives in the time from beginning of the mosquitoes season 2019 until September 5. All the victims were over 60 years old.During the same period a total of 158 people were infected by the virus across the country. 97 of …
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August 23, 2019
Social
Four deaths and 47 new cases of infection with the West Nile virus have been recorded in the last week, thus increasing the total number of deaths to 10 and of infections to 96. According to the weekly epidemiological surveillance report of the West Nile Virus issued by the Greek …
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August 8, 2019
Very Mix
Two more people died last week due to West Nile virus infection, increasing the number of deaths since the begin of mosquitoes season to four. According to the latest epidemiological report by the Greek National Public Health Organization (EHOD) published on Thursday, August 8th 2019, the number of West Nile …
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