There are no prizes for guessing that the Greek stock market picked up on Monday from where it left off in 2021, with very low trading volume trending upward only slightly and the benchmark once again reaching for 900 points.
Cyprus’ Health Ministry announced on Monday that starting on Tuesday, January 4, all incoming travelers, regardless of their vaccination status, will have to present a negative PCR test taken up to 48 hours before departure.
Deputy Tourism Minister Sofia Zacharaki appeared confident in recent comments to the press that the new year will act as a springboard for Greece to make even greater strides.
Turkey recorded 44,869 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, the highest daily figure since late April, health ministry data showed on Monday.
Ninety-two members of the medical staff in Athens’ Evangelismos Hospital, Greece’s largest, have tested positive for the coronavirus in recent days and been quarantined, while patient visits have been banned, the hospital’s manager said Monday.
Infections with the Omicron variant of the coronavirus account for 70% of all new cases across five regions of Greece – Attica, Thessaloniki, Patra, Thessaly and Crete – in the last few days, the head of the National Public Health Organization (EODY), Theoklis Zaoutis, said Monday.
Police in the western city of Patras have arrested a well-known boxing coach following accusations that he sexually harassed a 14-year-old female athlete.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday he was saddened by his country’s 2021 annual inflation after it soared to 36.1%, adding his government was determined to lower it to single digits.
New cases of the coronavirus jumped past the 36,000-mark again on Monday, after 17,633 on Sunday when there is significantly less testing, and 30,010 the day before.
The transmission of the Omicron variant is expected to peak quickly and start levelling off later in January, based on how it behaved in South Africa, expert epidemiologist and member of the panel of experts advising the government, Dr. Gkikas Magiorkinis, said in an interview with the state-run radio station Praktoreio on Monday.