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An unbelievable complaint regarding the hospital in Aigio, northern Peloponnese: the hospital asked 20 euro for tests to be conducted to a firefighter, member of an Albanian mission that came to Greece to help contain the big wildfire in Xylokastro. The firefighter, a member of the Albanian mission that was …

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Greece’s Health Ministry ends the compulsory use of face masks against Covid-19 on public transport means that was obligatory since April 2020. The measure goes into effect on Monday, March 27, 2023. Note that many passengers stopped wearing the obligatory masks in public transport since the government relaxed general protection …

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Air passengers from China will need a negative Covid-19 test, a PCR or a rapid test, Greece’s Civil Aviation Authority announced in a air directive (notam) issued late on Monday. The measure refers to all passengers on direct flights from China to Greece regardless of their nationality. All travelers from …

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The European Union is assessing Beijing’s rollback of its strict anti-infection controls but refrained Thursday from immediately following EU member Italy in requiring coronavirus tests for airline passengers coming from China. Health officials from the 27-member bloc promised to continue talks on seeking a common approach to travel rules. However, …

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School year 2022-2023 in Greece will start on September 12 without masks and Covid-tests for teachers and students alike, the health minister said on Monday. No mask mandate in schools, despite the fact that coronavirus infections remain high. “Τhere will be no mask mandate but recommendation,” health minister Thanos Plevris …

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The 6th Health district will collect samples to conduct molecular PCR tests for COVID-19 at five Greek airports with international flights. The collected samples aim to locate possible new mutations of the virus as part of a research study. According to an announcement, the 6th Health district in cooperation with …

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Uninsured patients in Greece will not longer be able to have regular drugs, laboratory tests and screenings free of charge or against a small percentage of payment from the own pocket  if these are prescribed by private doctors. The decision goes into effect from 1. July 2022. Following a series …

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The foreign national currently treated in an Athens hospital is not infected with the monkeypox virus but with chickenpox, first results of laboratory tests showed on Sunday night. The 29-year-old tourist was considered the first suspected case of monkeypox in Greece. In laboratory tests conducted at the Attikon hospital and …

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Greece’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) announced on Sunday the new flight instructions with the conditions of entry into Greece to limit the spread of COVID-19 disease. The new instructions exclude vaccinated passengers with European Digital Covid Certificate from manadoty covid-test. The new flight instructions are valid from Monday, February 7, …

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Greece has caused a row with Cyprus after a Minister and ruling New Democracy party Vice claimed that the cheap PCR tests used in Cyprus were “Chinese” and of “very low reliability.” Development Minister Adonis Georgiadis was trying to argue in favor of expensive PCR tests in Greece and in …

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Schools in Greece will reopen as scheduled on Monday, January 10, following the Christmas and New Year’s holidays and despite the fact that daily infections hit one more record, exceeding 50,000 in the past 24 hours. The reopening is to take place with more testing for students and teachers, vaccinated …

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Greeks spent the second day of 2022 new year with small social gatherings, a walk in the sun and long queues outside pharmacies, private diagnostic centers and public facilities for a Covid-test. The first week of the new year started again with long queues outside diagnostic centers, with dozens of …

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Following the new Covid-measures for unvaccinated citizens and those over 60 years old announced by Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Thursday a new and very complicated every day life goes in effect from Monday, November 22, 2021. There are activities where all citizens, vaccinated, unvaccinated or recovered from Covid-19 …

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The Holy Synod of the Church of Greece has issued a circular calling on priests and the faithful to get vaccinated against Covid-19, to wear masks and keep safety distances in churches to contain the spread of coronavirus. Ιt also calls on unvaccinated faithful to go to churches after they …

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Patients will not have to provide a coronavirus test to their dentists during a regular visit, the Health Ministry clarified on Tuesday, after an uproar over media reports obliging patients to either a rapid or a molecular test. Exceptionally, the ministry said, patients expected to be operated on or undergo …

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This seems to be the new “pandemic” in Greece: fake vaccination certificates and fake documents certifying illness with Covid-19. Authorities have taken under scrutiny at least ten vaccination centers across the country as denouncements keep coming in. Involved seem to be in the majority doctors, nursing personnel and administrative staff …

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Health Minister Vassilis Kikilias announced on Tuesday that unvaccinated citizens will not be able to have free PRC and Rapid Covid-19 tests as from September 13 in an effort to increase financial pressure to those who refuse to get vaccine shots. Free Covid-tests will be available only for vaccinated citizens …

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Greece’s health authorities announced on Saturday 2,472 new coronavirus cases and 8 Covid-related deaths in the past 24 hours. The number of intubated Covid-patients in hospitals Intensive Care Units increased to 133. Slowly but gradually admissions to hospital increase and so does theenumber of intubated covid-patients. Vaccinations Stand July 23, …

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A dispute over coronavirus procedures led to cancellation of a friendly football game between Turkish Galatasaray and Greek Olympiakos and turned political on Monday. Galatasaray claims “discrimination, rude and unfair treatment by Greek officials at the airport, Greek authorities claim procedures against the Covid-19 by the book. The dispute started …

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Deputy Minister Akis SKertsos announced on Wednesday the lifting of the ban of inter-regional travel and the preconditions for those traveling to/from the Greek islands from May 14, 2021. Exempted are travelers to/from the islands of Evia, Lefkada and Salamina that can be reached both by land and the sea. …

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