COVID-19

Greece on Alert after Increase of Coronavirus in Thrace Region

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...

Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Distributes Covid-19 Relief Funds

The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America recently announced the distribution of more than $250,000 on behalf of those affected by the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States. Under the guidance of His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros, this initial amount is part...

Greece Escalates Crackdown on Clubs Breaking Coronavirus Rules

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...

Greece Quarantines Northern Village After Spike in Covid-19 Cases

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...

Greece on Edge as Covid-19-Untested Tourists Arrive on Monday

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...

WHO Clarifies Statement Regarding "Rare" Asymptomatic Spread of Coronavirus

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...

Greece Announces Highest Number of Covid-19 Cases Since Reopening

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...

American Airlines to Resume Flights to Athens on August 5

American Airlines has announced it will resume direct flights to Athens, Greece on August 5. No flights from the United States are allowed to land in the country currently due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The first direct flights to Athens...

Coronavirus-Infected Passengers "Tested Negative" Before Flying to Athens

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 Conducts Mass Coronavirus Testing in 30 Regions

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...