The platform of vaccination appointments against covid-19 will be launched this afternoon, as the second phase of vaccination of citizens over 85 years of age begins on January 20, according to the prioritization of the National Vaccination Committee, int.ert.gr reports. The General Secretary of Public Administration, Dimitris Anagnostopoulos, speaking to ERT, stated that the appointments will be … [Read more...]

Greece will receive over 26 million Covid-19 vaccine doses, enough for 15,450,000 citizens, health officials announced on Monday, according to greekreporter.com. Speaking at a briefing, Secretary-General for Primary Health Care Marios Themistocleous said the vaccination plan is progressing well and several hospitals have completed the vaccination of their medical staff with the first of two … [Read more...]

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is willing to support the Greek government's efforts for the recovery of enterprises after the pandemic crisis, Dimitra Papandreou, principal manager of EBRD and head of the program of Consultancy Services to Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises in Greece, told the Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA) on Tuesday. The main problems facing … [Read more...]

After saying COVID-19 vaccinations wouldn’t be mandatory in Greece, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis now wants them required - all across the European Union - people barred from traveling in the bloc otherwise. Mitsotakis wrote European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to urge the introduction of a coronavirus vaccination certificate that would ease travel between member-states in the … [Read more...]

JP Morgan recommends investing in Greek bonds, as the company remained positive about Greek bond yields, assessing that the country’s credit rating upgrades by agencies within the year will take it out of the junk category, probably within the next year, protothema.gr reports. JP Morgan analysts recommend long positions in the Greek 7-year bonds against the Portuguese, while they expect an … [Read more...]

Athenians are sweltering through one of the hottest beginnings to the year on record, greekcitytimes.com records. According to the National Observatory of Athens, January has already proven to be Athens’ hottest month in at least 160 years. Specifically, during the first ten days of January 2021, temperatures in the Greek capital ranged from 18.3°C-12.1°C. The average temperature was 14.8°C. On … [Read more...]

Greek-Turkish relations, immigration, the pandemic, and the Recovery Fund were the topics of discussion at a press conference given on Monday by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and his Portuguese counterpart Antonio Costa after their meeting at the Prime Minister’s Palace in Lisbon, int.ert.gr reports. Kyriakos Mitsotakis thanked Portugal for its active support to Frontex operations in the … [Read more...]

Passenger numbers at Athens International Airport (AIA) dropped by 68.4% across the pandemic-hit 2020. Figures published by AIA show that the airport received a total of 8.08 million passengers in 2020, from 25.57 million in 2019, greekcitytimes.com reports. Furthermore, the number of international travellers last year plunged by 71.6% at 5 million from 17.82 million in 2019. Domestic traffic also … [Read more...]

The Greek authorities announced today 866 new cases of the new coronavirus infection (COVID-19), of which 12 were identified after checks at the country’s borders, protothema.gr reports. The total number of cases is 146,020, of which 52.2% are men. During the tracking, it was discovered that 5,651 (3.9%) were related to travel from abroad and 44,252 (30.3%) are related to an already known … [Read more...]

IATA Director General Alexandre de Juniac made the following remarks during the first media briefing on the pandemic in 2021: "Before we get into discussing the virus, I would like to extend the sympathies of the industry to the families and loved ones of those who lost their lives in the tragic Sriwijaya Air crash over the weekend. Safety is aviation’s number one priority and our greatest … [Read more...]

European Commission spokesperson on EU external affairs, Peter Stano, on Tuesday stressed that Turkey must behave constructively toward EU member-states, and said the EU has repeatedly shown solidarity with Greece and Cyprus when asked to comment on the resumption of exploratory talks between Greece and Turkey, ANA reports."While this is a bilateral issue, we have been discussing already how … [Read more...]

Miami – The International Air Transport Association (IATA), the Latin American and Caribbean Air Transport Association (ALTA), Airports Council International Latin America and the Caribbean (ACI-LAC), and the Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation (CANSO), are jointly expressing their deep concerns about the new measures and restrictions imposed on air travel across Latin America and the … [Read more...]

Sheldon Adelson, founder of the Las Vegas Sands casino empire, has died at the age of 87 from complications related to the treatment of non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. Adelson had recently resumed cancer treatment and was taking a leave of absence from his roles as chairman and chief executive officer of both Las Vegas Sands and Sands China. “Born to immigrant parents and raised in a poor section of … [Read more...]

Sheldon Adelson, founder of the Las Vegas Sands casino empire, has died at the age of 87 from complications related to the treatment of non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. Adelson had recently resumed cancer treatment and was taking a leave of absence from his roles as chairman and chief executive officer of both Las Vegas Sands and Sands China. “Born to immigrant parents and raised in a poor section of … [Read more...]

Sheldon Adelson, founder of the Las Vegas Sands casino empire, has died at the age of 87 from complications related to the treatment of non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. Adelson had recently resumed cancer treatment and was taking a leave of absence from his roles as chairman and chief executive officer of both Las Vegas Sands and Sands China. “Born to immigrant parents and raised in a poor section of … [Read more...]

President of the Hellenic Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou on Tuesday received the credentials presented by the newly appointed ambassadors of Latvia, Pēteris Kārlis Elferts, Argentina, María Lucía Dougherty de Sánchez, Albania, Luella Hajdaraga, Japan, Yasunori Nakayama, UAE, Sulaiman Hamid Salem Al Mazroui and Saudi Arabia, Dr. Saad bin Abdulrahman Alammar, respectively, ANA reports.Deputy … [Read more...]

"I believe we have already the formula and we must try it but on no account will public health be 'offset' in any way. This is something we will not discuss, we can with simple rules learn to live with this situation," Greece's general secretary of commerce and consumer protection Panagiotis Staboulidis said to Athens-Macedonian News Agency radio station "Praktoreio" on Tuesday.He clarified that … [Read more...]

"I believe we have already the formula and we must try it but on no account will public health be 'offset' in any way. This is something we will not discuss, we can with simple rules learn to live with this situation," Greece's general secretary of commerce and consumer protection Panagiotis Staboulidis said to Athens-Macedonian News Agency radio station "Praktoreio" on Tuesday.He clarified that … [Read more...]

Saga has launched its 2021/22 range of holidays, including familiar favourites as well as some brand-new destinations. In Europe, the company will offer many long-stays such as four weeks for the price of three in popular winter sun destinations, many rooms for solo customers with no supplements as well as tours offered on an all-inclusive board basis. Saga has also extended their Travellers World … [Read more...]

Heathrow saw passenger numbers fall by 73 per cent last year as Covid-19 restrictions took a huge toll on the aviation sector. In total 22 million people passed through the airport. In December, passenger numbers plummeted 83 per cent when compared to 2019, as fears about the new strain of Covid-19 meant countries shut their borders to the UK. Alongside this, millions of people were forced to … [Read more...]