Greek health authorities announced 7,108 new coronavirus cases and 93 deaths on Wednesday. The report by the National Organization for Public Health also revealed 612 patients are currently intubated in Greece’s ICUs.
Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias held a telephone conversation with the Foreign Minister of the Republic of Korea, Chung Eui-yong, according to a statement released by the Foreign Ministry on social media on Wednesday.
A court in Thessaloniki on Wednesday approved the extradition to France of a 35-year-old Greek on charges of involvement in a drug smuggling ring. The case involves the shipment on a sailboat of 1.7 tons of cocaine from Latin America to southern France in June 2017.
The European Commission has approved a €2.27 billion aid scheme proposed by Greece to boost renewable power generation, it said on Wednesday. The measure will help Greece meet its renewable energy targets, without unduly distorting competition, the executive arm of the European Union said.
A list of passengers on the 800-km trip list released by Skopje media suggested most of the victims, who included 12 schoolchildren, were from North Macedonia’s ethnic Albanian minority.
Turkey and the United Arab Emirates signed accords on energy and technology investments on Wednesday after talks between President Tayyip Erdogan and Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan in Ankara.
Health is at the core of the strategy for the digital transformation of the state, Digital Governance Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis told Kathimerini’s Athens Health Summit on Wednesday.
A Greek actor has forced the cancellation of a Eugene Ionesco play in Athens after refusing to perform only for vaccinated audiences, drawing criticism and praise in equal measure amid a surge of Covid-19 infections in the country.
Average spending per tourist in Greece over the first nine months of the year was 25% higher than in 2020 and slightly more compared to the same period in 2019, Bank of Greece data show.