April 30, 2023
Greece, Politics
Greece’s Health Minister Thanos Plevris was attacked with yogurt, while he was having lunch with his wife and children in a tavern of Petralona district of Athens at Sunday noon. In a post on Twitter, minister Plevris uploaded two pictures and blamed “brazen leftists” for the attack adding that also …
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March 14, 2023
Greece, Politics
Τhe Athens Bar Association’s disciplinary board removed lawyer Konstantinos Plevris, for a Nazi salute in front of judges and a crowd of people at an appeal hearing of Golden Dawn in October 2022. Plevris, who is well-known for his Nazi support, was representing Giannis Lagos, a MEP and former GD …
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January 3, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics, Social, Society
Greece’s Health Ministry finally found a solution, a medicine, so to say, to combat drugs shortages: Price Hikes. In the mind of the ‘genius’ health ministry leadership this will scare off citizens/patients from getting medicines and thus creating shortages. Crazy? Cynical? Stay-home-and-die policy? The Health Ministry will raise the prices …
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September 28, 2022
Greece, Politics
Τhe study by Associated Professor for Public Health Theodoros Lytras on the high percentage of mortality among intubated Covid-patients outside Intensive Care units triggered an outrage first of all in the society. The Minister of Health, Thanos Plevris, could not avoid but to comment as the study showed that 97.7% …
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August 1, 2022
CORONAVIRUS
This is the second week that the COVID-19 cases are dropping and the number of patients on ventilators remains stable, much lower from the number which could put pressure to the National Health System, Health Minister Thanos Plevris said on Monday. Speaking to ANT1 TV, the minister said that “many …
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July 11, 2022
FEATURED
“The transmission of coronavirus does not take place in closed spaces,” claimed Greece’s health minister Thanos Plevris on Monday, while the daily briefing by the National Health Care Organization EODY was halted amid the summer wave of the pandemic with around 20,000 infections daily and over 20 corona-related deaths in …
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June 17, 2022
Economy
The Greek state is suing Swiss-American multinational pharmaceutical giant Novartis for 214 million euros, Health Minister Thanos Plevris announced on Friday. In a statement, Plevris said the state is seeking compensation for the non-pecuniary damage it has suffered “from the actions that Novartis itself has admitted to in the USA …
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January 19, 2022
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
Greece will most likely extend the pandemic restrictions for one week, health minister Thanos Plevris indicated on Wednesday citing members of the epidemiologists’ committee that is holding its weekly meeting on the course of the pandemic in the country and pressure on the health system. Speaking to state broadcaster ERT, …
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December 22, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, Greece, Politics
Health Minister Thanos Plevris saod on Wednesday that the government is considering a new “framework of restrictive measures” against Covid-19 after the Christmas and New Year’s holidays. Speaking at the Plenary of the Parliament Plevris stressed that the Epidemiologists’ Committee that is meeting today will make its recommendations and the …
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October 20, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
8,400 coronavirus-related deaths have been avoided in Greece since the national vaccine rollout late December last year, professor for infectious and the country’s top epidemiologists Sotiris Tsiodras said Wednesday, in a rare Live on TV appearance to convince people to get the jab. He added that according to analysis models, …
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September 1, 2021
Greece, Politics
Greece’s newly appointed Health Minister Thanos Plevris apologized to the Jewish people and asserted he opposes any form of anti-Semitism. Plevris posted his apology on social media on Wednesday afternoon, following pressure by the Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece (KIS). Plevris said that he distances himself from his …
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September 1, 2021
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
The Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece (KIS) has expressed its concern for the appointment of Thanos Plevris as Minister of Health. KIS wants that Plevris apologize for previous statements denying the Holocaust. In a statement issued on Wednesday, just a day after Plevris appointment, the KIS said: “The …
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October 12, 2020
Greece
MEP and convicted Golden Dawn Giannis Lagos fired his lawyer and hired Constantinos Plevris. The 80-year-old lawyer is also a prolific far-right author and father of New Democracy MP Thanos Plevris who immediately distanced himself form the issue. Through his new lawyer, Lagos accused the judges of bias and appealed …
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