Greece
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Niarchos foundation offers $100 million to combat effects of Covid-19
The Stravros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) announced on Tuesday, 7 April, that it was making available $100 million to combat the immediate and long term impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. The …
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Greek piano prodigy offers solace to those in Covid-19 isolation
He may be seven years old but the kid can play. Stelios Kerasidis is also a child with heart that not even Covid-19 will suppress. The piano prodigy used the …
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Coronavirus cases in Greece reach 1,673 while UN warns that ‘everyone is at risk’
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Greece has risen to 1,673 according to the latest updates from the country’s Health Ministry. At the time of this update a total …
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Australian doctors request release of asylum seekers to protect them from Covid-19 infection
More than 1,200 doctors from across the country have signed a letter to Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton, Citizens and Multiculturalism Minister Alan Tudge and Customs, Community Safety and Multicultural …
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Ritsona refugee camp in full lockdown due to 20 cases of coronavirus
The Ritsona refugee and asylum-seekers camp has been placed on a full lockdown for two weeks since Thursday morning, after 20 residents tested positive for Covid-19. The lockdown was ordered …
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Onassis Foundation, shipowners bring in 13.5 million masks
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and his health minister Vassillis Kikilias were at Athens’ international airport to receive a huge consignment of surgical masks from China which was paid for …
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Xanthi team make 3D masks to help medical staff
Greek cardiologist Komnenos Gambras from Xanthi, northeastern Greece, and self-taught computer engineer Anestis Papachristou created a voluntary group of seven people to make plastic masks using 3D printer technology for …
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Manolis Glezos, a hero of the Greek resistance passes away
Manolis Glezos, left-wing politician and resistance fighter during WWII, died from heart failure at the age of 98 in Athens on Monday. While he is most known for hoisting the …
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Unofficial, safe glendi livens up quarantine Saturday night in Athens
“We stay at home but we are not alone” is the motto a neighbourhood in Palaio Faliro in southern Athens has adopted as its own. A DJ living in one …
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Child’s poignant picture reminds us of sacrifices of Greece’s heroes
Despite not being able to participate in this year’s Greek Independence Day parade, students at Alphington Grammar School, who have been learning remotely for the last two weeks, reflected on …