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Russian Church Infiltrating Greek Orthodox Churches, Former Deputy Minister Says
A member of the Greek parliament and former Deputy Minister of Education and Religious Affairs, Angelos Syrigos, has called out the Russian Church for its attempts to infiltrate the Greek Orthodox patriarchates and churches, according to a recent article...
Greek News
Life Expectancy Fell Globally 1.6 Years During COVID-19 Pandemic
Global life expectancy fell by 1.6 years during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, a new study published on Tuesday in the medical journal The Lancet shows.
The study, described as the most comprehensive look at the pandemic's...
Europe
German Man Vaccinated Against Covid 217 Times
A 62-year-old man from Germany has, against medical advice, been vaccinated 217 times against Covid, doctors report.
Researchers from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg said they encountered the case through media reports and asked the man to undergo some testing. The...
Health
Men Die 6 Years Before Women, as Life Expectancy Gap Widens in the US
The gap in the life expectancy of men and women has been widening in the US in the last decade new research led by UC San Francisco and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health shows.
According to the researchers,...
Medicine
MRNA Vaccine Pioneers Win Medicine Nobel Prize
The 2023 Nobel Prize in Medicine has been awarded jointly to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for research that was critical in the development of mRNA vaccines against Covid-19.
The Nobel committee honored Hungarian-born biochemist Karikó and US immunologist Weissman...
Health
Institute in China Involved in Creation, Cover-up of Covid Pandemic: Report
Scientists in China were running a covert project of dangerous experiments that caused a leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology and started the Covid outbreak, a report in The Sunday Times reveals.
Citing US investigators, the report said there...
Health
‘Disease X’: Experts Warn it Could Cause Deadlier Pandemic than COVID
The World Health Organization added “Disease X" to its short list of “priority diseases” that could cause the next deadly pandemic.
The term Disease X is used by the WHO as a placeholder to describe a disease that’s unknown to...
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COVID No Longer a Global Health Emergency, WHO Says
COVID is no longer a global health emergency, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Friday.
“For more than a year, the pandemic has been on a downward trend with population immunity increasing from vaccination and infection, mortality decreasing, and...
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Arcturus: The Most Transmissible Covid Variant Yet
Arcturus, a newly discovered Covid variant, is the most transmissible variant yet and has already been detected in 29 countries as of April 11, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Also known as Omicron subvariant XBB.1.16, it has been...
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Travelers From China Still Enter Greece With No COVID Checks
Travelers from China enter Greece without checks despite the government's decision last week to demand a negative COVID-19 test and masks.
A report on SKAI TV on Thursday said that confusion prevails at Athens International Airport. Travelers arriving from Shanghai...