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Twenty-one new cases of infection with the Covid19 coronavirus were recorded in Greece on Thursday, making the overall number of victims in the country spike to 31. Twenty one out of the 24 contacts of the ninth person in Greece...

The second case of coronavirus was recorded in the western Greece city of Patras on Thursday, bringing the total number of confirmed cases throughout the country to ten. The Greek Health Ministry announced that the tenth victim is a close...

The Italian government announced on Wednesday afternoon, after hours of speculation, that all schools across the country will remain closed until March 15, beginning on Thursday. ''For the government, it was not a simple decision,'' Italian Education Minister Lucia Azzolina...

The first case of coronavirus has been recorded in the western Greece city of Patras on Wednesday, bringing the total number of confirmed cases throughout the country to nine. The Health Ministry announced that the latest victim is a Greek...

The Greek Health Ministry confirmed a new case of coronavirus, on Wednesday, bringing the total number of infections in the country to eight. The latest case of COVID-19 involves a man who is related to a previously-confirmed victim of the virus who...

Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the European Commission, said that the risk of a European COVID19 Coronavirus outbreak has risen from moderate to high on Monday morning, as Portugal was the latest EU member state to report incidents...

The number of confirmed cases of the COVID-19 Coronavirus in Greece rose to seven on Saturday, with another three patients testing positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus which causes the disease. According to the Health Ministry, which had already announced that...

Greek authorities announced on Saturday evening that two more people have been diagnosed with Coronavirus in the country, that now has at least seven confirmed cases. On Saturday another person had been tested positive in the COVID19 Coronavirus in Thessaloniki. According...

The coronavirus outbreak in Europe caused the postponement of the 5th Delphi Economic Forum in Greece, as it was made public on Saturday. The organizers issued a statement where they say that ''We have decided to postpone the Delphi Economic...

The Greek Ministries of Health and Education announced on Friday that a total of eight schools will shut down in Attica as a precautionary measure to help prevent the spread of the COVID19 Coronavirus. The schools that will be forced to...

Greek health authorities announced on Friday that a 36-year-old woman is now the fourth victim of coronavirus in the country. The woman, who had recently traveled to Italy, is now receiving treatment at the Attikon Hospital in Athens. Doctors say that her...

Local communities in Greece have reacted negatively to the government's decision to cancel all Carnival festivities in the country between February 29 and March 2 in order to limit the spread of the Covid-19 Coronavirus in the country. Greece's largest...

Media across the globe have been constantly informing the public about the Covid-19 Coronavirus outbreak in the last several weeks, and its rapid spread is indeed troubling.  However, the outbreak of influenza which occurs every winter is proving yet...

Greece had officially recorded  three cases of coronavirus by Thursday, one in Athens and two in Thessaloniki, forcing authorities to cancel all festive activities relating to Carnival, or Apokries. A young woman is currently hospitalized in an Athens hospital and two...

Greek authorities announced on Thursday that a woman who is hospitalized in an Athens hospital has been diagnosed as infected with coronavirus. It is the first such case in the Greek capital. Reports say that the patient had recently traveled...