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Army Field Hospital Set Up in Thessaloniki for Covid-19 Patients

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...

Greece Appropriates Two Private Hospitals for Covid-19 Patients

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...

Pfizer CEO Bourla Says Vaccine Distribution Will Begin “Hours” After FDA Approval

In an interview with Sky News on Thursday, the Thessaloniki-born scientist at the helm of Pfizer, the American pharmacological conglomerate which looks to have the first coronavirus vaccine on the market, said that it will begin to be distributed...

Greek Nurses Volunteer to Travel from Crete to Thessaloniki to Battle Covid

Ten nurses are travelling from Crete to Thessaloniki on Wednesday, in order to voluntarily assist their medical colleagues in the fight against the coronavirus. The Greek Minister of Health, Vasilis Kikilias, announced that nurses named Vasiliki, Olympia, Evangelia, Artemis, Katerina,...

Bishop of Langadas, Thessaloniki Dies at 62 After Contracting COVID-19

Ioannis, the Bishop of Langadas in Thessaloniki, passed away on Sunday morning at the age of 62. The ecclesiastical figure was hospitalized on Friday, and doctors did their best to save his life; however, this proved not to be possible. The...

Dark Day in Greece: Record Numbers of Cases, Deaths, and Intubations Thursday

A stunning 3,316 cases of Covid-19 were diagnosed in Greece on Thursday, breaking the previous record of 2,917 cases, and 50 people who had suffered from Covid-19 have died in the country. There are currently 310 intubated patients in...

Greek Doctor Cries for Help: "We are at War with Covid"

Greek doctor Daniel Konstantinidis, who works at Papanikolaou General Hospital in Thessaloniki, in northern Greece, published a cry for help on social media on Thursday, stating that "We are at war" with Covid-19. Dr. Konstantinidis writes in his post that...

Covid-19: Record 43 Deaths in Greece; New Emergency Measures Announced

A record 43 people who had suffered from Covid-19 died in Greece Wednesday, and there are currently 297 intubated patients in intensive care units around Greece -- representing the highest number of intubated patients recorded in one day since...

Thessaloniki Becomes the Epicenter of the Covid Pandemic in Greece

Health officials were dispatched to Thessaloniki on Wednesday to coordinate efforts to stem the spread of the coronavirus as Greece's second largest city has become the epicenter of the second wave sweeping Greece since August. According to the Greek Health...

A Greek to Save the World: Who is Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla?

The much-anticipated discovery of the coronavirus vaccine brought to the limelight the name of Pfizer's Chairman and CEO, Albert Bourla.