Health

Greek authorities are on high alert following the alarming outbreak of the coronavirus in Italy, where as of Tuesday morning more than 280 cases and seven deaths have been recorded. Infectious disease experts warn that the possibility of an outbreak...

Greek authorities have asked the public to remain calm and not panic as neighboring Italy struggles to cope with the unexpected and dramatic rise of coronavirus cases over the last two to three days. Speaking with reporters on Monday, Greek...

Greek authorities are on high alert following the alarming outbreak of the coronavirus in Italy. As of Monday morning, at least five individuals in northern Italy have died from the disease and more than 200 active coronavirus cases have...

Greek cruise industry insiders are increasingly alarmed about the effect of the coronavirus epidemic on the tourist industry as Chinese bookings have stopped completely and the virus has spread to Italy, a major cruise connection point with Greece. "We are...

Italian officials have cut short the Venice Carnival, closing it down entirely on Sunday, and locking down ten towns in northern Italy as they try to control what is now the worst outbreak of the coronavirus in Europe. Italy has...

Greek Education Minister Niki Kerameos has decided to suspend all student educational trips planned to Italy and also shut down ten Greek schools operating in the neighboring country, due to the coronavirus outbreak. There are ten Greek schools in Italy....

Greek authorities have put portals from Italy on high alert. More than 100 people are confirmed to have coronavirus in Italy and in the past two days two people have died. Greece is taking emergency measures at the ports of Patras and...

Two Greek passengers on the cruise ship "Diamond Princess" that was quarantined have returned healthy to Greece since Saturday morning, according to a repatriation plan co-ordinated by the Greek authorities and the European Civil Protection Mechanism. The two repatriated Greek...

February 19 marks the day every year when Greece and the global community celebrates the shining memory of Dr. George Papanicolaou, the Greek pioneer in cytopathology and early cancer detection, who invented the ''Papanicolaou Test,'' also known as the...

Greek Health Minister Vassilis Kikilias said on Sunday that Greece will soon evacuate the two Greek nationals who are on board the ''Diamond Princess'' cruise ship, which has been quarantined by Japanese authorities due to the presence of Coronavirus cases...

Greece's Tourism Minister said on Thursday that the coronavirus epidemic will have a limited impact on the country's tourism, since Chinese tourists constitute a small minority of visitors to the country. Speaking on state broadcaster ERT, Haris Theocharis added that...

Fifteen additional individuals died in Greece this week from the annual outbreak of influenza during wintertime, raising the total number of fatalities this season to 53, Greece’s National Public Health Organization (EODY) said on Thursday, in its weekly updates...

A Chinese citizen who recently traveled from China to Greece and had developed symptoms related to the coronavirus was cleared of carrying the disease on Wednesday. The 33-year-old man was transferred to the Attikon Hospital on Tuesday evening, designated by...

A woman who is a Chinese national and resides permanently in Cyprus is being tested for Coronavirus by the Cypriot authorities in Nicosia, it was made public on Monday. The woman visited China in the past couple of weeks, Cypriot...

Protective facial masks have become a rare item in Greece as pharmacies are unable to cope with demand, the president of the the Athens Pharmaceutical Association revealed on Sunday. Speaking to Proto Thema radio, Constantinos Lourantos said that the shortage...