Critical decisions are being made today by experts on what will follow over the next few days until Christmas. The final decisions regarding the lifting of the lockdown and the measures against the coronavirus are expected to be taken today by the experts of the committee of the Ministry of …
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Private laboratories in Greece have strongly reacted to the price cap the government decided for Covid-19 tests, Molecular PCR tests and Rapid tests, Private laboratories in western Greece went so far to even stop conducting Covid-19 tests. The reaction of the private laboratories to the decision of the Government to …
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