Vaccine

The AstraZeneca vaccine against Covid-19 has received the green light from the European Medicines Association, the medical regulator of the European Union, despite controversy over its distribution. The vaccine is the third to receive the EU's approval, following the shots...

A total of 585 new cases of Covid-19 were diagnosed in Greece over the past 24 hours, and 288 people are now intubated in the country's ICUs, while 28 new deaths occurred in those with the coronavirus in 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...

Prime Minister Mitsotakis stressed the need to speed up the European Union's vaccine approval process in an European Council videoconference on the EU's strategy for dealing with the pandemic late on Thursday. According to government sources, the Prime Minister, together with...

Pfizer is set to temporarily limit shipments of its coronavirus vaccine to Europe in order to ramp up future production, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH) announced on Friday morning. Norway, the first European country that Pfizer warned about...

After receiving the vaccine against Covid-19 on Tuesday, a 117-year-old Greek woman became the second-oldest person in the world to become inoculated against the virus. The woman, referred to only as Eleftheria, was born on the island of Lefkada in...

PM Mitsotakis said that 2 million Greeks will be vaccinated against the coronavirus by the end of March in a television interview on ANT1 with journalist Nikos Hatzinikolaou on Tuesday evening. During the wide-ranging interview the Prime Minister spoke about...

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the leader of all Greek Orthodox Christians worldwide, had stern words on Tuesday for those who are skeptical of the coronavirus vaccine, encouraging the faithful to be inoculated when their time comes. In a statement he issued,...

Greece will receive over 26 million Covid-19 vaccine doses, enough for 15,450,000 citizens, health officials announced on Monday. Speaking at a briefing, Secretary General for Primary Health Care Marios Themistocleous said the vaccination plan is progressing well and several hospitals...

As the UK variant of Covid-19 spreads across Europe, the World Health Organization has called for European nations to enact stricter measures to curb its transmission. Hans Kluge, the Europe Director of the WHO, stated on Thursday that more measures,...