Mayor to sue over power outages
An eastern Attica mayor is suing power grid operator HEDNO after parts of his municipality were left without power for five days.
Covid: 22,362 new cases, 107 deaths, 605 intubated
Health authorities announced 22,362 new coronavirus infections for the 24-hour period ending 3 p.m. Friday, an increase on Thursday’s figure of 19,712.
Omicron will not be the last Covid-19 variant, WHO spokesman warns
World Health Organization spokesperson Tarik Jasarevic lays out the good and the bad news around the Omicron variant of Covid-19. Omicron is milder than Delta, he says, but it remains a dangerous virus – and it will most certainly put a strain on the healthcare system.
Disposable income up 6.2% in Q3 2021
Greek households’ disposable income grew 6.2% in the third quarter of 2021, totaling 33.52 billion euros, from €31.55 billion in the corresponding period in 2020.
Failings lead to new civil protection model
This week’s snowstorm and the huge problems it created in Athens once again highlighted in the most unpleasant way the chronic weaknesses and functional shortcomings of Greece’s much-berated civil protection apparatus.
EBRD’s 2021 investment in Greece at €838 mln
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development’s investments in Greece totaled 838 million euros last year, it said on Thursday, making the country one of its top five funding recipients.
Man arrested in hotel on suspicion of sexually exploiting minor
Police arrested a 40-year-old man in an Athens hotel on Friday on suspicion of sexually exploiting a 14-year-old girl who was with him.
Investigation launched as woman with dead fetus in utero sent from hospital to hospital
A prosecutor in Kozani has ordered an urgent preliminary investigation into possible offences in the case of a 41-year-old pregnant woman who was unable to receive emergency hospital treatment after the seven-week-old fetus she was carrying had died but remained in utero.
Greece needs ‘modern and effective crisis management system’, president tells PM
The summer wildfires and the snowstorm that hit Greece this week demonstrate that Greece “must as soon as possible acquire or rather establish a modern and effective crisis management system,” President Katerina Sakellaropoulou told the prime minister on Friday.
More rain, storms, snow forecast for weekend
Heavy rain and storms can be expected in central and southern parts of the country from Friday night until Sunday, National Meteorological Service (EMY) warned in an emergency bulletin issued on Friday.