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File photoA Joint Ministerial Decision of Greece’s Ministries of Education and Health was published on Monday, specifying the way churches are allowed to operate between April 12 and April 20, during the Orthodox Christian Holy Week and Easter Sunday. Churches will be open and able to conduct liturgies, but must abide by under Greece’s strict  social-distancing…

The mountainous villages had been in a state of complete lockdown since mid-March. Photo Credit: AMNAThe total lockdown of two quarantined villages in the region of Kozani in West Macedonia, northern Greece, was legally lifted on Monday. The residents of the villages of Damaskinia and Dragasia, isolated since March 16, are now able to communicate…

Greek Prime Minister Mitsotakis at Athens’ Sotiria Hospital. Photo Credit: PM’s press officeTens of thousands of desperately-needed personal protective equipment (PPE) items were handed over to the personnel of the Sotiria (Salvation) Hospital in Athens on Monday. The large facility now exclusively treats patients suffering from the COVID-19 coronavirus. Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and…

File photoGovernment spokesperson Stelios Petsas thanked Greek citizens for their response to the measures to contain the spread of the coronavirus on Monday, as Greece’s infection and death rates remain impressively low compared to other EU member states of similar size. Petsas also noted that if everything goes well, May could possibly be the month when…

File photoThe oldest person in Greece to be treated after having contracted the COVID-19 coronavirus is 101 years of age, according to an epidemiological report published on Monday by the Hellenic National Public Health Organization (EODY). The EODY report revealed a wide range of interesting statistical data about the spread of the disease in Greece.…

File photoApproximately fifty German Christian Democrat MPs from the ruling CDU party recently urged Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the European Commission, to transfer the thousands of refugee and migrant children currently in Greek camps to other EU-member states. ”Given the rapid spread of coronavirus, it is imperative that juvenile refugees be transported urgently…

By Andrew Tzembelicos* Watching countries across the globe respond to the COVID-19 crisis raises the question of how every country’s preparedness for such an onslaught has differed and how each nation’s people have risen — or not — to this grave challenge. In this regard, as painful as the decade-long financial crisis was for Greece…

Photo Source: kallerna/Wikimedia CommonsFollowing the imposition of curfew measures for Santorini and Mykonos on Sunday, mayors of some smaller Greek islands are demanding a ban on all arrivals, especially over Easter, to prevent the spread of Covid-19. Among those islands is Tilos, in the Dodecanese. Its mayor, Maria Kamma, tells Greek Reporter that there is…

Hospital beds. Photo Credit: AMNAThe death toll from the coronavirus rose to 76 on Monday after three male patients passed away. The three patients were an 82-year-old man being treated at a Patra hospital, a 72-year-old in Alexandroupoli and a 78-year-old in Thessaloniki. According to Sunday’s official update by the Health Ministry, a total of…

Following a discussion between Greece’s Deputy Civil Protection Minister Nikos Chardalias and the Mayors of the islands of Santorini and Mykonos, stricter curfew measures will be imposed on these two popular Greek islands for the next fourteen days. Mykonos Residents of the island of Mykonos will no longer be able to exit their homes between…