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Infrastructure and Transport Minister Christos Staikouras confirmed that the main line of the Thessaloniki Metro will be delivered on November 30. “In just 87 days, Thessaloniki will have its Metro… 18 years after the signing of the project’s main contract on April 26, 2006,” he said during a press conference …

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The first of the three FDI HN “Belharra” frigates ordered for the Greek Navy was launched on Wednesday at the Naval Group’s site in Lorient, France. The launching of frigate “KIMON” took place in the presence of Greek National Defense Minister Nikos Dendias, his French counterpart Sébastien Lecornu, the chief …

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Seismic surveys to search for natural gas began on Thursday in offshore areas west and southwest of Crete, Environment and Energy Minister Kostas Skrekas said in an interview with state broadcaster ERT. “The ship has begun its work. It is letting out the cables with the headphones that it drags …

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Greece has launched a National Register for children and teenagers with cancer ailments. The registration of patients is mandatory and is done by the doctor presiding over the case, via the e-prescription system. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Monday met two children that have recovered from cancer, Nefeli and Philippos, …

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Eftsathia Kampisiouli, chief nurse at the Intensive Care Unit of Evangelismos hospital in Athens, was the first Greek to receive the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine against Covid-19. She was followed by an 88-year-old care home resident and the political leadership of the country who received the Covid-vaccine in a symbolical move aiming …

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Greece will launch an online platform to allow citizens register for “randomized coronavirus testing in the community,” professor for infectious diseases Gkikas Majorkinis announced at the pandemic live briefing on Friday evening. The platform will go online on Monday night, December 21, 2020. Majorkinis said that the tool will allow …

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The first express electric train service that will carry out the Athens-Thessaloniki route in under four hours is to be launched next Monday, the general secretary of infrastructure and transport ministry, Thanos Vourdas, told the Athens-Macedonian News Agency. The new trains will cover the distance in just three hours and …

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The Greek satellite Hellas Sat 4 was successfully launched from French Guiana at 23:01, in order to take up the orbital position of Greece and Cyprus. Minister of Digital Policy, Telecommunications and Media Nikos Pappas, in statements to public broadcaster ERT, said it was a very important step. “After the …

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Two microsatellites, UPSat and DUTHSat, constructed in Greece will be launched into space on Tuesday, at 18:11 Athens time – along with 26 other similar microsatellites – from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral in Florida, USA. The microsatellites will be transferred onto a rocket-carrier «Atlas V», destined for …

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