Health

Greek police arrested on Tuesday a 47-year-old suspect who was posing as a doctor. He is thought of being responsible for at least three deaths during the time he pretended to be a physician. Police accuse the man of persuading...

Greek health authorities are on high alert once again after 11 new cases of Covid-19 appeared in the Echinos community in the Xanthi Prefecture, an area in which the General Secretariat for Citizen Protection imposed a curfew and restrictions on...

81-year-old Greek-American physician Theodore Giannaris was tragically found dead in Manhattan after having gone missing since June 7, 2020. According to his family, Dr. Giannaris left that Sunday morning to go for his usual walk, but without having taken his...

Greek authorities ordered five nightclubs in Attica to close down over the weekend for overcrowding after police raided their premises on Friday night. The businesses, located in the port city of Piraeus and the Kerameikos and Gazi districts of central...

Greek islands are preparing to host their first tourists as the country opens up to foreign travel beginning on June 15. Authorities say that they have put in place a comprehensive plan to for early identification and treatment of possible...

Greek authorities on Thursday ordered a village near the city of Xanthi, in northeast Greece, into quarantine after a spike in the number of coronavirus cases there. Greece's General Secretariat for Civil Protection announced restrictions in the broader region after...

As Greece gets ready to welcome tourists on Monday, a poll published on Thursday finds that the overwhelming majority of Greeks would like tourists arriving in the country to undergo Covid-19 testing. In a survey conducted by ALCO for the...

The World Health Organization announced on Monday it that it believed that the spread of the coronavirus from individuals who do not have symptoms of the virus is "rare." Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO's technical lead on COVID-19, said at...

Greek health authorities announced on Monday that there have been 97 new cases of coronavirus crop up in the last four days -- 52 of them since Sunday -- in what is an alarming spike of infections since the...

The fifth edition of the Delphi Economic Forum, appropriately titled "The Day After" will take place online on June 9-12, after its annual meeting in the conventional form was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. The four-day conference had been set...

Greeks are now allowed to dine, have a drink, or enjoy their coffee indoors, as the ban due to the COVID-19 pandemic has been lifted as of Saturday, Restaurants, cafes, and bars opened again on May 25, but patrons were...

The arrival of 6,000 – 10,000 asymptomatic travelers infected with COVID-19 during the tourist season is inevitable, noted Manolis Dermitzakis, a renowned Genetics professor at the University of Geneva Medical School. The professor spoke on Skai television on Friday, saying...

Qatar Airways claimed on Thursday that twelve passengers who tested positive for COVID-19 after landing in Athens on Monday had been healthy when they left Doha just five hours earlier. In a statement, Qatar Airways said “Upon arrival in Doha...

Greece's health authorities reported 15 new cases of coronavirus and one death on Thursday as mobile units completed 1,000 sample-collection missions in thirty regions across the country. The total number of coronavirus cases in Greece now stands at 2,952, including...

Greece will suspend all flights from Qatar until June 15 after 12 of an airplane's 91 passengers tested positive for COVID-19 after arriving in Athens Monday on a flight from Doha, Qatar. The passengers arrived on a Qatar Airways flight. "Following...