Health

EU Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides on Wednesday decried Astra Zeneca's recent announcement that it would be providing far less of the coronavirus vaccine to the bloc, saying "The 27 nations of the EU are united that AstraZeneca needs to...

The quick-spreading coronavirus variant, first identified in the UK in November, has now unfortunately been detected in regions across Greece. In total, 59 cases of the mutation have been diagnosed in the country. So far, all of these cases of...

Greece announced on Monday it is banning large gatherings in public and private places in order to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus. The ban, which became effective as of 6 a.m. on Tuesday morning, will be in effect...

The US will ban most travel from Greece, the UK, Ireland and other countries in a bid to stop the further spread of the coronavirus variants that have emerged abroad and already made inroads in the United States, according...

A total of 436 Covid-19 cases were diagnosed in Greece on Monday, 102 more than the 334 cases that were recorded in the country one day earlier, on Sunday. Tragically, 25 people with the virus passed away in the country...

The European Commission (EC) proposed new restrictions on travel to help stop the further spread of the coronavirus and its variants as not only the overall case numbers but the number of variants continue to rise across the continent. As...

Greece confirmed 334 new Covid-19 infections in the last 24 hours of which 4 were identified at entry points to the country, the National Public Health Organization (EODY) said on Sunday. All confirmed coronavirus infections since the pandemic's first case...

On Sunday, Greece approved colchicine, an inexpensive medicine for heart diseases, to be included in the protocol of oral treatments for patients with Covid-19. The committee of experts of the Health Ministry gave the green light for the medication after...

Health authorities announced on Friday that mutated variants of Covid-19 have been detected in Greece and 26 new cases have been recorded related to those variants. The figure was made public as Health Minister Vassilis Kikilias held an emergency meeting...

Greek high schools will reopen on February 1, according to information presented at a live-televised briefing presented by Deputy Minister of Civil Protection and Crisis Management Nikos Hardalias and Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and member of the Committee of...

A total of 585 new cases of Covid-19 were diagnosed in Greece over the past 24 hours, and 288 people are now intubated in the country's ICUs, while 28 new deaths occurred in those with the coronavirus in the...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis had no idea that his bare-chested photograph while taking his second vaccine shot against Covid-19 would soon go viral. But it did. The Greek Prime Minister received the second dose of the Covid-19 vaccine on...

Prime Minister Mitsotakis stressed the need to speed up the European Union's vaccine approval process in an European Council videoconference on the EU's strategy for dealing with the pandemic late on Thursday. According to government sources, the Prime Minister, together with...

Pfizer will reduce its vaccine shipments to Europe by up to 50%, according to new information reported by Reuters on Thursday evening. The troubling situation is due to unexpected cuts in supplies of the vaccine from the US pharmaceuticals industry,...

A total of 516 Covid-19 cases were diagnosed in Greece on Wednesday, 50 fewer than the 566 cases that were recorded in the country one day earlier, on Tuesday. Tragically, 27 people with the virus passed away in the country...