COVID-19

After many weeks of high covid-19 case numbers in the country, the number of daily cases recorded in Greece has finally fallen for the past two days. The country recorded a total of 526 new cases of Covid-19 on Monday,...

Greece received a number of specialty vaccine refrigerator/freezers, designed to keep the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine at a frigid -70 degrees Celsius (-94 degrees Fahrenheit), on Sunday. The refrigerator/freezers -- which are currently being stored at an undisclosed location -- have...

In a very welcome announcement after an extraordinarily difficult year ravaged by the coronavirus pandemic, it was revealed on Monday afternoon that the European Medicines Agency has given the green light for the emergency use of the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus...

The drop in the numbers of Covid-19 infections and deaths continues in Greece. On Sunday the National Public Health Organisation (EODY) announced 588 news cases and 70 deaths, while 515 patients are in intubation. According to EODY, 11 of the...

A large percentage of health workers in Greece have responded negatively to the upcoming Covid-19 vaccination, with anti-vaccination doctors and nursing staff in some hospitals being the majority. According to a recent poll by Pulse among health professionals, 29 percent...

Greece's National Public Health Organization (EODY) announced on Saturday that 901 people were infected with Covid-19 and 58 died in the past 24 hours, while 534 are in intubation. Of the total cases, only six were detected in the country's...

The coronavirus vaccine developed by the American pharmaceutical firm Moderna, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, along with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) was cleared by the FDA on Friday after receiving the all-important thumbs-up from its independent...

Tragically, 96 people with Covid-19 passed away on Friday, 18 more than the number who passed away with the virus yesterday, Thursday,  bringing the total number of deaths with the virus in the country to 4,044. The median age of...

Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced on Friday that the first Covid-19 vaccines will arrive in the country on December 26 and that vaccinations will begin the following day. "We believe that the first vaccines will be in Greece on December...

The approval of vaccines against Covid-19 and the beginning of their distribution bring some consolation this Christmas, but the increase in coronavirus cases worldwide is accompanied by the imposition of stricter restrictions on travel and family gatherings at this...