Officials fear that the galloping Omicron variant of the coronavirus will paralyze large swaths of the state apparatus starting next week. Vulnerable services include hospitals, public transport, civil service bureaus, schools and universities.
Greece’s short-term property rental market moved into positive territory last month, as the monthly analysis by AirDNA showed demand for Airbnb-type assets posted a 7.6% increased compared to November 2019, in a first for comparisons with the pre-pandemic period.
2021 was yet another difficult year as the Covid-19 pandemic, the global energy crunch and climate change accentuated inequalities around the world, Nikos Androulakis, the freshly-elected leader of the center-left Movement for Change (KINAL) alliance said in his New Year’s message late Friday.