vaccination

While heavy snowfall across the country has resulted in beautiful, wintry scenes, it has also caused major problems in Greece, especially in Attica, the home to Greece's capital city of Athens. Many of Attica's residents, as well as those living...

A total of 698 cases of Covid-19 were diagnosed in Greece on Monday, 36 more than the 662 cases that were recorded in the country just one day earlier, on Sunday, but far fewer than the 1,000+ that had been...

Covid-19 vaccination campaigns have turned into a dog-eat-dog competition internationally as shortages of the coronavirus vaccine have caused some nations to fend for themselves, trying to secure as many doses as possible. Only a few weeks ago, the arrival of the...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis had no idea that his bare-chested photograph while taking his second vaccine shot against Covid-19 would soon go viral. But it did. The Greek Prime Minister received the second dose of the Covid-19 vaccine on...

Keen to ease travel among EU countries, Greece has proposed the introduction of a Covid-19 vaccination certificate, it emerged on Tuesday. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has sent a letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to that effect. “It...

Schools in Greece reopened on Monday after more than two months of remote learning, as the digital platform for appointments for the inoculation of citizens over the age of 85 also opens today. Special measures will be applied to primary...

Vaccination starting with those aged 85 or over will begin on January 20, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Tuesday.

The coronavirus vaccination process in Greece has come under fire from opposition parties who accuse the government of prioritizing officials to receive the vaccine before most health care workers.

A Greek priest expelled several faithful who were not wearing masks from the church of  Agios Nikolaos in Flario, Kalamata, during a liturgy on Christmas Day. "Play objector in your home, not here," were the caustic words of the priest who...

Greece on Wednesday unveiled its operational plan for the nationwide vaccination campaign against COVID-19 using the vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, entitled "Eleftheria." The plan aims to quickly guarantee the citizens' immunization protection against the threat of the virus,...