Greece

While the government was psychological preparing Greeks of the gradual lifting of the lockdown on December 1, on Friday the government spokesman contradicted himself announcing exactly the opposite. “December 1 no longer looks like a realistic target,” government spokesman Stelios Petsas told state broadcaster ERT on Friday morning. “We never …

Transfer of patients from requisitioned private clinics started on Friday, just hours after Greece authorities proceeded with the “appropriation” of two private health clinics and their staff in Thessaloniki, northern Greece. Requisition was necessary as the region’s public hospitals are under severe pressure from a surge in coronavirus cases over …

A prosecutor in Athens charged a 27-year old man from Syria with membership in the terrorist organization ISIS /DA’ESH and direct complicity in manslaughter as a terrorist act after an incident at the migrant facility in Eleonas, an Athens neighborhood, led to his arrest on Thursday. Citing sources, state-run news …

Greece’s health authorities announced on Wednesday 3,227 new coronavirus cases and another 59 deaths in the last 24 hours. The number of intubated Covid-19 patients hit one more record reaching 499. Total cases have reached 85,227 and death toll 1,347. The pandemic situation in Thessaloniki remains crucial despite the fact …

Greece’s health authorities and TRAINOSE are proceeding with special modifications of a so-called “Covid-Train”, a train with six wagons in order to exclusively transfer Coivid-19 patients from Thessaloniki to hospitals in Greek capital Athens. According to the GRTimes, the train has already arrived in Thessaloniki and work is already underway …

Wearing winter coats and masks, five elementary school children sit in the cold, they are struggling to attend the distance learning, the e-classes of the Greek Education Ministry. The pupils in the village Pefki in the Municipality of Pyrgos, Peloponnese, have no internet at home, have no computer, mobile phones …

Council of Europe’s anti-torture Committee calls on Greece to reform its immigration detention system and stop pushbacks. In a report published on Thursday, on a rapid reaction ad hoc visit to Greece in March 2020, the Council of Europe’s anti-torture committee (CPT) once again urges the Greek authorities to change …

The Greek government has decided to close some of the border crossings in northern Greece and increases Covid-19 test demands in an effort to contain the rapid spread of coronavirus in the broader area. Closed is one border crossing with Albania, while one border crossing with Bulgaria will remain open …

A 61-year-old man with heavy disabilities was found crying, hugging his 90-year-old mother in a Kavala neighborhood. The mother had died two days earlier. Both were diagnosed positive to Covid-19 and were advised to quarantine at home by the National Health Care Organization EODY. A tragic incident in Kavala, northern …

Archbishop of Athens and All Greece Ieronymos was admitted to Evangelismos Hospital in Athens on Thursday morning after testing positive for the coronavirus. he 82-year-old Arhbishop is showing mild symptoms. Before admitted to the hospital he said “with God’s help” he will get through. He was admitted to Increased Care …