Greece

The delicious age-old tradition in Greece of offering "spoon sweets" to visitors goes way back to the fourteenth century.

A fire that broke out in the Chamber of Handicrafts building in Thessaloniki on Friday afternoon has left eleven people hospitalized. The building, located in the center of the city at Aristotelous Square, burst into flames on Friday. Firefighters and...

The newly recorded COVID-19 cases in Greece remained high on Saturday, as the country tries to cope with the spread of the Delta variant. 

The priest at the center of an acid attack against the seven prelates at Petraki Monastery has been sent to a psychiatric hospital.

EODY announced on Monday that a total of 1,381 new cases of coronavirus were diagnosed in the country over the last 24 hours.

Health authorities in Greece confirmed a total of 2,020 new coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, a slight increase from the 1,918 diagnosed on Thursday

Mount Athos is on high alert, after 20 cases of coronavirus were diagnosed in the monks belonging to the many monasteries on the peninsula.

Greece appealed to the private sector doctors to help out in the National Health System (ESY), due to increasing numbers of COVID-19 cases.

Greece enlisted two private hospitals in Athens in order to ease the pressure from the spike in coronavirus cases on the public health system.

Health officials in Greece are concerned about the nation's hospitals after the number of intubated patients with Covid-19 reached 406 Monday.

At least twenty-one members of the Greek Parliament have expressed their will to work on a voluntary basis for Greece's National Health Service (NHS), known in Greece as ''ESY'' to help fight the ravaging second wave of the coronavirus...

An army field hospital has been set up outside the 424 Military Hospital in Thessaloniki in order to tend to Covid-19 patients as the city's hospitals reach overflow. Works are expected to be completed and the field hospital will be...

The Greek government took over two private hospitals in Thessaloniki on Thursday in which transmission of the coronavirus has been particularly widespread. The decision was reached after the private clinics failed to voluntarily provide 200 beds for Covid-19 patients despite...

Archbishop of Athens and All Greece Ieronymos was hospitalized on Thursday morning after testing positive for the coronavirus. The 82-year-old head of the Greek Church, who is believed to be suffering from only mild symptoms at present, is receiving treatment...

According to an announcement by Greece's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Wednesday, Nikos Dendias, the Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs, is now under quarantine after coming into contact with someone who had a confirmed case of Covid-19. Dendias had met...