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President Trump Touts Operation Warp Speed, Says Vaccine May Be Delivered in 2020

In a late afternoon press conference in the Rose Garden outside the White House on Friday, President Trump spoke about Operation Warp Speed, the US government's program which had as its aim the production of a coronavirus vaccine by...

Covid 19: New Cases Over 3,000 for Second Consecutive Day, Record 336 Intubations in Greece

On Friday, it was announced that 3,038 cases of Covid-19 had been diagnosed in Greece over the last 24 hours and 38 people who had suffered from the virus had died. There are currently a record 336 intubated patients...

Greece Pulls Plug on Rally for Anniversary of Polytechnic Uprising

On Friday, Michalis Chrisochoidis, the country's Minister of Citizen Protection, announced that the annual rally commemorating the Polytechnic Uprising on November 17, 1973 would not occur this year. The yearly demonstration marks the day that Greece's right-wing military Junta sent...

Mt. Athos in Complete Isolation Until November 30

In response to the nationwide lockdown imposed after the huge spike in coronavirus cases, deaths and intubations around the country, Greece's monastic community of Mt. Athos, called the "Holy Mountain," has decided to enter complete isolation from the outside...

Greece Now Has Legions of Coronavirus Infected Minks

Covid-19 has now been detected in thousands of minks at a farm in northern Greece, according to an Agriculture Ministry official's statement on Friday. The testing of the animals was spurred by the discovery just days ago of the virus...

Covid Vaccine Will Be Free of Charge for All Greeks, PM Mitsotakis Says

Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis promised on Friday that the coronavirus vaccine, when made available in 2021, will be provided free of charge to all Greek citizens. Speaking during a teleconference on the coronavirus vaccination strategy, Mitsotakis emphasized that the vaccine...

Mainland Greece Placed on UK Quarantine List

Travellers returning to the UK from mainland Greece will now have to self-isolate for two weeks, the British government confirmed on Thursday. The measures will come in to force beginning at 4 am on Saturday, the Minister said this afternoon. Only...

Greece Under Overnight Curfew Beginning on Friday

An overnight curfew will come into effect across the country on Friday, November 13, and last until November 30. During the hours of 21:00 to 05:00 every day, citizens must restrict their outings to the bare minimum: only for work,...

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...