Novak Djokovic and Boris Johnson have both featured prominently in the media in recent days. The No 1 tennis player in the world rankings and the prime minister of Britain unwillingly offered an important service by lying at the time of a pandemic.
Greek health authorities reported 17,447 new coronavirus cases for the 24-hour period ending 3 p.m. Saturday, a slight decline on Friday’s figure of 19,772.
The US Embassy in Athens and its consular section, the US Consulate General in Thessaloniki, and all US government offices in Greece will be closed Monday.
The National Library of Greece (NLG) and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) present an exhibition titled “The Printing Houses during the Greek Revolution.” The exhibition seeks to highlight the instrumental role of the printing press in the crucial years of the Greek War of Independence.
There was a further decline in the positivity index of SARS-CoV-2 laboratory tests and the number of confirmed cases on Friday, but daily deaths and intubations still remain high.
An unspecified number of self-styled anarchists were detained by police during a march in central Thessaloniki to protest the clearing of a squat in a basement area of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, last month, after 34 years.
A Turkish unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) entered the Athens FIR on Saturday afternoon and flew twice over the islet of Kandelioussa, west of Nisyros, in the southeastern Aegean.
Greece has received 5,700 treatments of molnupiravir for Covid-19, while another 25,000 are on their way, Alternate Health Minister Mina Gaga told state-run news agency AMNA on Saturday.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis urged again on Saturday people over 60 years of age who remain unvaccinated to get the jab as soon as possible.