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With the epidemiological data nationwide worsening from day to day, the government is preparing for every eventuality, amid experts’ dire projections of a large spike in the number of deaths, intubated patients.

The head of the Thessaloniki Prosecutor’s Office has ordered a probe into charges by Abbott Vartholomeos of Esphigmenou Monastery on Mount Athos (photo) that unvaccinated monks are not only refusing to get the jab but are also urging the faithful not to do so.

The specific app reconstructs, in a virtual manner, the site where the Olympic Games were held all the way to late antiquity.

According to data released today by the National Public Health Organisation (EODY), there have been 7,105 newly confirmed cases and 70 deaths (95 percent with an underlying medical condition and/or age 70 or older) in the last 24 hours.

The signs of collapse are already evident and one can predict how the situation will evolve, as experts project that the huge pressures on the system will continue in December.

The General Consumer Price Index moved upwards in October 2021, compared to September 2021, showed an increase of 1.5% compared to an increase of 0.3% recorded in the corresponding comparison of the previous year

The popularity of the once most popular Turkish politician is plummeting, and the economic problems of the “regional power” are constantly growing. Inflation and poverty are battering  his working class base of support.

“Instead of blaming Greece, you should blame those who take advantage of human beings”

'I am absolutely convinced that this prime minister and this government is applying the highest standards and the fact that they have immediately launched an investigation on the issue of the pushbacks is testimony of that,' Dutch PM Mark Rutte said.

The monoclonal antibodies will be administered, based on specific medical criteria that are being reviewed by the Committee on Infectious Diseases, at hospitals nationwide.

'There is absolutely no discussion regarding suspending the operation of schools. Many thanks to the educational community for the exceptional enforcement of [public health] measures. Only six classes out of 80,000 have been closed down,' said the education minister.

The online pharmacy industry recorded a growth rate of 31% in 9 months according to Convert Group

The reactions of PPC and private providers to the public consultation of the Energy Regulatory Authority (RAE). Opposition to the risk rating categorization of invoices. Barbs of Mytilineos for the PPC monopoly

The hardest hit regions, where the vaccination rate is exceptionally low, are Central Macedonia (including Thessaloniki, Greece’s second largest city, where even large hospitals are at the breaking point), Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, and Thessaly.

Mossialos, who since March, 2020, represents Greece in international organisations on issues regarding COVID-19, underlined that, 'One vaccinated individual in the 50-plus age bracket has the same impact [in managing the pandemic] as three younger vaccinated people.'

The European development bank said it has joined a 1.35-billion-euro share capital increase announced by PPC.

Mitsotakis in public statements has downplayed the significance of traditional ideological labels, questioning even the utility and substance of the word “progressive” – invoked by both main opposition SYRIZA and the centre-left Movement for Change.

The figure brings the number of confirmed Covid-19 infections in the country, since the beginning of the pandemic, to 792,239.

It was wrong from the start to categorically reject the compulsory vaccination of doctors and healthcare workers, civil servants, priests, the military, policemen, employees at large public enterprises, bank employees, and employees of large private businesses

“Greece expects 35% more visitors from the United Kingdom in 2022 than in 2021”, the Minister of Tourism pointed out in an interview