Health

By Dr. Constantine Passaris* Greece became the whipping boy of Europe in the aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2008. As the contagious effect of the financial crisis reached Greek shores, it devastated its national economy. In the subsequent...

More than 150,000 employees returned to work on Monday, with most retail shops opening, as Greece enters the second phase of the relaxation of measures to contain the coronavirus. A government deputy minister said about 25 percent of all the...

Unseasonal temperatures of 35 degrees Celsius (95 Fahrenheit) are expected early in the coming week in Greece, while southern winds will bring dust from Africa, meteorologists say. This is the first time that Greeks will have to deal with summer-like...

All military exercises of the Greek Armed Forces have been suspended due to the coronavirus threat, starting with "Storm '20", which was to commence on Monday, according to a Kathimerini report citing military sources. The decision came after the Ministry...

A National Technical University of Athens team was awarded in a European Commission competition for creating a platform that uses sewer surveillance for early COVID-19 detection. The Greek team collaborated with students from the Netherlands, Spain, and the United Kingdom...

The government plan for opening up travel to the islands from mainland Greece will take place in three stages and will be completed on June 1st, according to the Ministry of the Interior. Travel from the mainland to the islands...

German airline Lufthansa announced on Friday that flights to Greece will recommence on May 18, almost two months after the Greek government banned incoming flights due to the coronavirus pandemic. The German air carrier announced that flights from Frankfurt to...

The European Commission on Friday called on Schengen member states and allied states to extend the temporary restriction on non-essential travel to the EU for another 30 days, until June 15. Initially, unnecessary travel to the EU was banned until...

Former Health Minister and respected cardiothoracic surgeon Dimitris Kremastinos has died aged 78 after contracting the coronavirus. Kremastinos had been admitted into Athens’ Evangelismos hospital with medical complications related to Covid-19 on March 26. He served as a minister in PASOK...

The Greek Minister of Tourism said on Thursday that all tourists planning to visit Greece this summer, after the season begins on July 1, must have tested negative for the coronavirus before they board the airplane to come to...

"The tourism experience this summer may be slightly different from what you’ve had in previous years...(but) you can still get a fantastic experience in Greece, provided that the global epidemic is on a downward path," Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos...

The Greek Health Ministry’s coronavirus spokesman Sotiris Tsiodras on Wednesday evening announced 21 new confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Greece in the past 24 hours and one new death. The epidemiologist elaborated on the news, explaining that 11 of the...

Greek scientists John P.A. Ioannidis and George P. Chrousos are on this year's list of Highly Cited Researchers in the world, according to their Google Scholar Citations public profiles. The data was collected during the last week of April, 2020...

World leaders, international organizations and companies which have pledged €7.4 billion to develop new tools to detect, treat and prevent the novel coronavirus have called for the vaccine to be available and affordable to all. The funds were pledged during...

Greece partially opened up on Monday with the opening of small retail stores and hairdressers and the free movement of people within the prefecture of their permanent residence. Greeks took the first tentative steps back to normal life after more...