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Direct flights from the US to Greece will be extended into the winter months, the Athens-Macedonia News Agency (AMNA) said in a report published on Tuesday. Delta, following the launch in 2022 of a direct Athens-Boston flight for the first...

The first direct flight of an American airline from the USA this year landed at Athens International Airport on Tuesday, opening this year's tourist season earlier than ever before. The flight took off from New York's John F. Kennedy International...

Confirming a widely-held understanding of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, a new South African study released on Friday confirmed that the mutation caused less severe illness and leads to fewer hospitalizations and deaths than any previous variants. The study,...

Omicron infection rates may be dropping soon in the US and Great Britain, some experts say -- simply because the newest variant of the coronavirus is so incredibly contagious that it will run out of individuals to infect. With the...

US airlines canceled hundreds of flights for a third day in a row on Sunday, as surging Covid-19 infections due to the highly transmissible Omicron variant grounded crews. Tens of thousands of Christmas weekend travelers had to change their plans. Commercial...

European leaders issued warnings on Friday that the Omicron variant will likely become the dominant strain of Covid-19 in less than a week. "We expect it to overtake Delta within days, not weeks," First minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon told...

Late on Wednesday, the pharmaceutical firm Moderna released new data regarding breakthrough cases of the coronavirus that it says supports the need for a third booster shot of its coronavirus vaccine. Earlier the Pfizer Corporation had announced that evidence from Israel...

As 1.3 million schoolchildren return to classes this Autumn all over Greece, as many as 50,000 Greek teenagers aged 12-18 may contract Covid-19 over the next months, according to one expert. Nikos Tzanakis, a respiratory disease expert who is the...

An internal CDC document warns the Delta variant appears to spread as easily as chickenpox; it also causes a more severe infection.

The vaccination rate in the US is starting to rise in accordance with the soaring rates of infection being observed in some states.