Greek health authorities announced 4,701 new reported cases of Covid-19 and 22 virus-related deaths during their daily briefing on the course of the pandemic on Sunday. The National Organization for Public Health (EODY) also stated that there are currently 238 intubated patients being treated in Intensive Care Units.
Molotov cocktails and other items were hurled at a squad of riot police officers stationed outside the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in the early hours of Sunday morning.
Citizen Protection Minister Takis Theodorikakos and Deputy Citizen Protection Minister Eleftherios Economou signed a decision on Sunday for the hiring of 250 border guards that will be stationed at the Evros river border crossing with Turkey in northern Greece.
A 14-month-old baby in Heraklion, Crete was diagnosed with hepatitis on Sunday and investigations are ongoing to determine whether it is related to the international increase of hepatitis cases reported in young children. The young boy had also been diagnosed with Covid-19 a few months ago.
The directors of two of Crete’s largest hospitals, the Heraklion University Hospital and the Venizelos Hospital, have disputed claims made by local media on Sunday morning of an infant hepatitis case in an interview with state broadcaster ERT. The news was also disputed by Lena Borboudaki, director of the 7th Regional Health Authority.
A fire broke out on Sunday at a plastics warehouse in central Athens. The Hellenic Fire Service arrived rapidly on the scene and are operating with five vehicles and 18 firefighters.
After two years of the pandemic and unprecedented restrictive measures, Greece is returning to normal on Sunday.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis released a statement on social media on Sunday to coincide with Labor Day on May 1.
Remnants of a bygone era, like the old commercial sign seen in the photograph, mesh to present an alternative history of the Greek capital and serve as a legacy of its design traditions.
Stephen Fry (2nd right), author of the best-selling retellings of Greek myths, presented his proposal to deal with the controversy of the Parthenon Marbles at an event in London attended by a 60-strong audience of politicians, diplomats and critics of the sculptures’ repatriation.