New single-day confirmed Covid-19 cases reported in Greece on Monday reached 320, based on some 9,000 tests (rapid and molecular) conducted the previous day around the country, while related deaths continued to drop amid a nearly three-month partial nationwide lockdown.
Greek woman, reported as 117 years old, receives Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine jab this week
Friday, 15 January 2021 21:29
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Greece s oldest citizen, by most accounts, and possibly one of the oldest in the world, known to all as Mrs. Eleftheria, received Pfizer-BioNtech s Covid-19 vaccine injection this week.
The supercentenarian lists a birth date of April 12, 1903 on the Ionian island of Lefkada, which would make just three months shy of 118.
One of Greece s oldest citizens lives in a care facility in the west Athens district of Nea Ionia, and news of her vaccination emerged with the country s deputy minister for labor and social affairs, Domna Michailidou, visited the facility earlier in the week to observe the process for people over the age of 85.
Next step taken to turn Aristotle Onassis private isle, Skorpios, into exclusive resort
Thursday, 14 January 2021 22:55
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An ambitious project to create an exclusive and upscale resort on the private isle once owned by Aristotle Onassis moved another step forward on Wednesday with the publication in Greece s government gazette of a relevant joint ministerial decision - a development that up until recently would have faced a bevy of bureaucratic hurdles.
The investment, billed as totaling 165 million euros, is the brainchild of billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev, Russia s potash king , who with his family owns the long-term rights to the verdant islet of Skorpios, just east of the Ionian island of Lefkada.
Greek health minister: Average age of people infected with Covid-19 now 46
Wednesday, 13 January 2021 21:23
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Greece s health minister on Wednesday cited a worrying figure related to new Covid-19 cases, saying that the medium age of infections in the country is now 46. This shows the manner in which the virus has been transmitted over the past 15 days has increased in the age groups between 35 and 54, minister Vassilis Kikilias said.
Greece s conservative government on Wednesday unveiled a set of reforms for the country s often troubled higher education sector, changes expected to generate a sharp reaction on the part of the leftist opposition and academics unions, but in line with ruling New Democracy (ND) party s pre-election pledges.