A 35-year-old man from Yemen living at the camp of Vial on the island of Chios tested positive late on Wednesday, a migration ministry official said on Thursday.
Read More »Coronavirus: Spain’s Galicia region bans smoking over Covid-19 risk
Experts say the risk of transmission is higher because droplets are projected when exhaling smoke.
Read More »Belarus election: Women form ‘solidarity chains’ to condemn crackdown
Women take to the streets of Minsk dressed in white as they demand an end to police brutality.
Read More »From beach parties in Halkidiki to over 30 infected elderly in Thessaloniki
A live music concert with 2,000 people in a beach bar of Halkidiki peninsula triggered lots of coronavirus infections in the neighboring Thessaloniki including 33 elderly in a nursing home. According to locals media, three of the bartenders were tested positive. President of Medical Association of Halkidiki, Marios Pyrpasopoulos told …
Read More »Slimmed-down Boris Johnson wants Brits to count their calories. Experts say that’s a bad idea
Boris Johnson’s latest strategy to fight coronavirus aims to make Britain healthier — but campaigners are worried about the impact the policy will have on people living with eating disorders.
Read More »Elephants, rhinos, hippos roamed the Pinios River valley, central Greece
One of the things that would sound really strange to today’s Greeks would be to expect to see in the countryside elephants, hippos, and bison, but things were not always this way according to current research – wild mammals found today in Africa and in Asia were once roaming in …
Read More »Six villages in Ikaria evacuated overnight due to wildfire
Six villages on the island of Ikaria were evacuated for several hours during the night as a wildfire fanned by northerly winds threatened to reach the settlements. Accoridng to locla media, the fire got out of control in the early morning hours of Thursday. On Thursday morning, the municipality of …
Read More »Italy to test travelers from Greece, 3 more EU countries, regions impose quarantine
Italy ruled on Wednesday that people travelling from Croatia, Greece, Malta and Spain must be tested for the coronavirus on arrival, as new infections increase in the four countries which are popular holiday destinations for Italians. “We have to continue with a prudent approach to defend the results we’ve achieved …
Read More »Have Mumbai’s slums just achieved herd immunity? Probably not — here’s why.
Official: Taiwan worried it will be the next Hong Kong
CNN’s Paula Hancocks spoke to Taiwan Minister of Foreign Affairs Joseph Wu about the US Health Secretary Alex Azar’s visit to Taiwan and the island’s concerns about China.
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