Tag Archives: recovery

Twenty seven days after my covid infection and I’m in proud position to say: fatigue is gone by 90% and taste has returned by 87 %. Reason for this development I suspect is the fact I spent Christmas Day in my pajamas on the couch watching Xmas films, eating cheese, …

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Greece extended the validity of vaccination and recovery certificates in order to comply with the European Union directive and the extension went into force on Monday, April 5, 2022. The validity of vaccination certificates is herewith extended to 9 months – from 7 months previously-, while the validity of recovery …

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Greece will change the expiration period of vaccination and Covid-disease certificates, the so-called Covid-Pass, in order to comply with the European Union directives, Health Minister Thanos Plevris said on Friday morning. “Expiration of the vaccination certificate after the second vaccine dose will be after 9 months and not 7as it …

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Greece’s Health Ministry announced Friday evening that all citizens above 18 years old will be able to book their booster shot for the Covid-19 vaccine 3 months after their second vaccine. Secretary-general for Primary Health Care Marios Themistokleous announced at an extraordinarily press conference on Friday even that the vaccinations …

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Unvaccinated citizens in Greece will only be able to procure a certificate of recent recovery from Covid-19 only with a molecular PCR test and not with a Rapid test as it was possible until today. This is what the Greek National Vaccination Committee has advised. These PCR tests will also …

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Greeks formed long queues outside shops waiting their Covid-documents to be controlled on Saturday when the new restrictions for unvaccinated people went into effect. However, also vaccinated Greeks had to find out that their documents had to be controlled if they wanted to have a coffee, a lunch, buy shoes …

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The Greek economy is expected to recover all losses suffered in 2020 in the fourth quarter of 2022, with the country’s real GDP surpassing the 2019 level by 1.7 pct at the end of 2022, according to the provisions of the draft budget plan tabled in Parliament on Monday. More …

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As it prepares to exit the program era, Greece has come a long way in the path of economic recovery. It still faces many challenges: high unemployment, weak banks, and uncompleted reforms, the IMF tweeted on Friday presenting the concluding statement that describes the preliminary findings of IMF staff at …

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Greece’s economic crisis is over only if you don’t live there. Everyone else, in other words, might have moved on because Greece isn’t threatening to knock over the other dominoes that are known as the global economy anymore, but its people are still stuck in what is the worst collapse …

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After years of international financial support, Greece’s third bailout program is due to finish in August this year. But what does this mean going forward? And despite appearing more stable economically, will confidence finally return – and with it, investment? The eurozone economy as a whole is much stronger, and …

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From a depth of 580 meters, teams of the Greek Air Force recovered important parts of a Mirage 2000 that crashed into the sea area between the islands of Skopelos and Euboea. The Mirage 2000 crashed into the sea on May 29 2017. The 28-year-old pilot was rescued with a …

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Greeece will need at least twenty years to have its GDP return to pre-crisis levels. This message full of … spring optimism was transmitted by Poul Thomsen, in charge of the European program of the International Monetary Fund. Speaking at a conference in the University of Oxford, Poul Thomsen said …

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Mild recession – Stagnation – Recovery – Growth? I’m kind of confused reading the comments on Greece’s economic data released today by the Greek Statistics Authority ELSTAT. Greece’s Gross Domestic Product declined at 0.7% in the second quarter of 2016 compared to the same period of 2015, the ELSTAT announced …

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It has been clear long ago, that the way Greece’s creditors address the Debt does not work. It has little to do with Greeks’ attitude to not implement all austerity agreements they sign with the creditors.It has to do with the wrong “rescue” formula that demands form a bankrupt country …

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Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras has said the debt-ridden country could return to pre-crisis living standards within six years. “According to most [experts], we will not need a couple of decades, not a couple of generations, but only six years,” he said in a speech. He was speaking in Rome …

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I am indeed very keen to know whether Greece is turning the misery page and swimms towards its economic recovery, or we’re just waiting around the corner with our nose in the air scenting the atmospheric high moving towards Greece. Or not. Here in the sun-kissed but debt-ridden country, we have …

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Recession in Greece is likely to end in 2024 but unemployment will remain above 20 percent for another three years. That would be …ehm… let me count… in 2016! Nice perceptive for the more than 1.3 million jobless. In a report published on Friday, the European Commission predicted the possibility …

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I think, I’m at the verge of a laugh attack today. Laugh is the cheapest and best remedy against depression – or insanity -, I hear. After the horrifying news that more than 6 out of 10 Greek youth have no job, the total terror comes from the lips of …

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Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras set the recovery of economy and the fight against recession and unemployment as top priorities of his coalition government. Speaking together with Development Minister on Wednesday morning at the …Finance Ministry, Samaras stressed  that the country should take advantage of the positive international mood towards …

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