While everyone can understand the need for normalisation and a return to regular life, in the summer of 2020 there was great laxity in the implementation of measures.
'As a Greek of Constantinople [as Istanbul, my family and I have experienced the repercussions of being uprooted from the home of our forefathers,' the arcbishop stated.
Without a common and unified stance toward an invisible enemy that easily penetrates human communities, there is no way out except death and a breakdown.
'Consequently, members of the Church can freely, in accordance with their doctors’ recommendation, choose to be vaccinated without any fear that the choice will have any repercussions on their relationship with God.'
'The government’s position is to ban movement between prefectures so as not to risk the transmission of the virus from areas with a heavy viral load to other regions of the country,' the spokesperson said.
Starting today, tourists from the European Union, the United States, Britain, Serbia, Israel and the United Arab Emirates will not quarantine if they are vaccinated or test negative for COVID-19.
Citizens realise that in the current transitional phase and until the vaccination rollout has been completed caution, vigilance, and systematic preparation is required.
Epidemiologists, doctors, and other scientists have not hidden the fact that the virus will continue to be transmitted in waves all over the world,
Now almost every family can share a tragic coronavirus story. Public hospitals are in a tragic situation. Doctors and nurses confess that they have reached the point of exhaustion.
The conservative New Democracy government of Kyriakos Mitsotakis took a controversial decision to ban not only the massive annual protest march but also any gathering of over four individuals nationwide.
Undoubtedly the hospitals of Thessaloniki and Larissa are being sorely tested, are unable to handle the mounting caseload and are sending patients to other hospitals
The government must forge the broadest possible consensus and understanding so as to make sure that the country will be able to weather the storm with the least possible losses.
The peculiar tolerance that all sorts of vandals and self-styled anti-authority groups have enjoyed under successive governments and rectors cannot continue.
Judging by its most recent measures the Greek government in the current second wave of the pandemic has continued implementing a more mild, gradual, and conservative strategy.
Compared to the first COVID-19 wave the second is striking with a vengeance but the outcome of the battle has not yet been decided.
Golden Dawn's modus operandi was precisely that of Hitler’s storm troops. It conducted cowardly attacks against helpless migrants and other vulnerable social groups.
Dealing with the challenges confronting the country is not a task for tacticians and there is no room for personal communications games.
In Attica, which is home to nearly half of the Greek population, one is witnessing the results of irresponsible behaviours and the disregard for the warnings of the scientific community during the summer.
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Health Ministry recommendations to maintain social distancing were forgotten at the sight of the sea.