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Vaccination of citizens in remote areas started on Tuesday on the island of Cretε and is expected to expand to other remote area on the mainland soon, media report. The vaccinations started in Tympaki and Agia Galini. The health ministry has contacted municipal officials who inform the residents of the …

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Greece’s Health Minister Vassilis Kikilias announced on Friday an incentives program to encourage National Health System doctors to serve on the Greek islands and remote areas on the mainland. The incentives program will include financial, tax and educational incentives for the doctors’ families if they serve in the specific areas, …

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Greece’s National Health Organization (EODY) will deploy teams to conduct COVID-19 testing to vulnerable residents of small and remote islands. Testing is scheduled to start next week on the islands of Milos, Kimolos, Folegandros and Sikinos, on May 25-26, 2020. The program will be expanded over the following weeks to …

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Every morning teacher Eleni gets on a small boat and sails to the small island of Telendos. By calm or by rough sea, whether in winter or in summer. She covers a distance of less than one nautical mile between Telendos and the island of Kalymnos where she lives with …

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Outrage among the inhabitants of three remote islands in the Southern Aegean Sea after Alpha Bank announced it will close its branches on September 14. Locals and tourists will not only be able to carry out banking transactions on the islands of Tilos, Lispoi and Kassos. They will also not …

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Deputy Minister for Rural Development, Giannis Tsironis, submitted a draft law to the Palriament allowing municipalities to create “camps for strays in remote forest areas. The draft is also a huge insult to the thousands of animal lovers and the dozens of animal welfare societies in Greece that take care …

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