Greek health authorities announced 32,694 new coronavirus cases and 80 deaths on Tuesday. The daily briefing by the National Organization for Public Health also stated that 640 patients are currently being treated in ICUs.
With the Omicron variant proliferating around the country, the government is throwing all its weight behind the effort to ensure that Greece rides the fifth wave of the pandemic with the least possible damage so that it can enjoy a Covid-free spring.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has received the credentials from Greece’s newly-appointed ambassador to the country, Christodoulos Lazaris.
A professor at the Athens University of Economics and Business was assaulted by five unidentified assailants in an auditorium on Tuesday. The professor was in the middle of a lecture when the group attacked him.
The VIP hall at Athens International Airport exceeded several times its capacity last year, as an increasing number of businesspeople and others choose private jets for their trips within Greece and abroad amid the pandemic.
Archbishop Elpidophoros of America has issued condolences to families of those killed in a January 9 apartment building blaze in the Bronx that killed 17 people, including eight children.
The man Greek authorities believe is the brain behind the murder of infamous Russian hitman Alexander Solonik and his girlfriend in southern Athens in 1997 was arrested at Thessaloniki’s international airport on Monday afternoon.
Greece’s National Vaccination Committee approved on Tuesday the administration of a fourth dose of a coronavirus vaccine to immunocompromised people.
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.1 rattled the small island nation of Cyprus and was felt throughout the east Mediterranean region, the country’s Geological Survey Department said on Tuesday.
A former municipal employee from Thessaloniki convicted to five years in jail for fraud was arrested in the city’s Kalamaria district on Monday afternoon and led before a prosecutor on Tuesday to enforce the sentence.