Greece

The public general hospital in Kozani, West Macedonia, is in the heart of the fight against the coronavirus, as the region has been severely affected by the pandemic and has a sad deaths record. In the general hospital Mamatsio, it is not locals infected with COVID-19 hospitalized there but also …

Greek police works with extensive zeal in implementing the lockdown restrictions and fines those violating the measures aiming to contain the spread of the coronavirus. However, this zeal reaches also absurd levels as officer fine also homeless for not staying at they home they do not have. A first fine …

Greece’s National Meteorological Service EMY has issued a red alert on extreme weather phenomena with gale force winds reaching up to 10 Beaufort, rainfalls, thunderstorms and snow. The country is forecast to be hit by two weather fronts: one coming from the North, affecting the central and northern parts of …

Head of Greece’s Civil Protection, Nikos Hardalias, announced on Friday restrictive access to the promenade in Patras and Volos during the working days and total closure over the weekends. The measures to contain the spread of coronavirus comes into effect after locals flooded the two promenades despite the lockdown measures. …

In a symbolic move of solidarity with the Italian people hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic, the Greek Foreign Ministry raised the Italian flag at the central building in Athens. Present at the ceremony on Friday morning was Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias, Italian Ambassador to Greece Efisio Luigi Marras and …

Four people died in Greece between Friday morning and afternoon, increasing the death toll due to coronavirus to 57. Three of the deceased were hospitalized in northern Greece, one in Athens. One of deceased was from the village Echinos, placed under quarantine since March 25. One of them was a …

Greece’s Tourism Ministry has launched the platform “Greece from Home” to promote the country during the time around the world stat at home due to coronavirus pandemic. The platform is a product developed through the cooperation of the National Greek Tourism Organization, Marketing Greece and Google. The new platform give …

Due to the great concern within the government just two weeks before Easter of fears of an increase in travel, changes to restrictions may occur. Scientific data so far has shown that Greece is in a better position than most European countries and this is largely due to – according …

Passenger traffic in Athens International Airport plunged 61.35 in March, making the month the worst month in the history of the airport. The air transport sector has been harshly hit by the coronavirus pandemic, leading airlines to halt the flight schedule and put thousands of workers into unpaid leave. Passenger …

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotaksi is one of the twelve conservative EU leaders favoring the expulsion of Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his party Fidesz from the European People’s Party (EPP). In a letter to EPP president Donald Tusk, signed among others also by Norwegian PM Erna Solberg and …