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The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) in Greece has extended until November 30 a series of travel restrictions “aiming to protect passengers and citizens from the Covid-19 pandemic,” as noted in a press release issued on November 9, 2020. The air directives (notams) regarding travel restrictions from certain countries and Non-EU …
Read More »Pfizer – BioNTech: A Covid-19 vaccine with Greek and Turkish background
U.S. drugmaker Pfizer and German partner BioNTech on Monday became the first drugmakers to show successful data from a large-scale clinical trial of a coronavirus vaccine. The companies said the vaccine was more than 90% effective and they have so far found no serious safety concerns, priming it for possible …
Read More »“Greece will emerge victorious” says Mitsotakis, sees the pandemic as “opportunity”
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis expressed his belief that Greece will be one of the countries that will emerge victorious from the reorganization caused by the pandemic in the world economy. “I am sure the recovery will be very strong as soon as we have the vaccine,” Mitsotakis said during a …
Read More »Coronavirus Greece: 41 deaths in 24 hours, 1490 new cases
A new shocking record for Greece, for third consecutive day: 41 Covid-19 patients died in the past 24 hours, health authorities announced on Monday evening. The daily new confirmed coronavirus cases are 1,490 due to a very small number of tests due to weekend Sunday. The number of intubations rose …
Read More »Weather warning for heavy rain- and thunderstorms on Crete, Dodecanese
Greece’s National Meteorological Service EMY issued a weather warning of heavy rainfall and thunderstorms, possible hail fall and locally stormy wind. EMY said in its warning that the weather deterioration will affect the island of Crete as well as the Dodecanese with intense weather phenomena, , especially the south parts …
Read More »Police breaks up illegal party in Athens hotel; present also 3 Olympiacos footballers
Police broke up a party that was being held in the roof garden of a hotel in blatant violation of the lockdown restrictions aiming to contain the spread of the coronavirus. The alleged party organizer was fined with 3,000 euros. Each of the participants was also fined with €300 unnecessary …
Read More »Greece’s online education crashes on Day One under Lockdown
On the first day of online learning for secondary education children, the teaching platform on WebEx crashed just an hour after it went in operation. Thousands of students and teachers sat in front of empty PC screens. At the beginning the system was blocked, students entered the link for the …
Read More »Olympic champion Stefanidi: Gov’t demands athletes pay back medal bonuses
Olympic pole vault champion Katerina Stefanidi is fighting the Greek Government’s demand that she and team mate Paraskevi Papachristou repay medal bonuses earned at the 2016 World Indoor Athletics Championships in Portland in Oregon. The 30-year-old United States-based athlete is concerned that the Greek Ministry of Sport is now excluding …
Read More »Sweeping police checks and fines across Greece on first lockdown day
Greek Police conducted sweeping checks for compliance with the measures of the second lockdown in the country. In a statement on Sunday, Police said that there were 55,724 police checks to ensure compliance with Covid-19 control measures on Saturday, November 7, the first day of the lockdown. Checks led to …
Read More »Refugee child dies, 6 missing in shipwreck off Samos island
One child died and six people are missing after a boat carrying migrant and refugees form Turkey to Greece capsized near the island of Samos early Sunday. 17 people have been reportedly rescued. According to media, the Greek Coast Guard recovered the body of the child from the sea area …
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