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Stricter Covid-19 measures on the way, as pressure grows for national lockdown
PoliticsGreek PoliticsMitsotakis to announce a new month-long action plan to tackle the spread of the virus. An emergency... lockdowns by France and Germany, coupled with the upcoming emergency EU summit on Thursday on the subject
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Greece to enter second lockdown as govt faces criticism over 'total failure'
PoliticsGreek Politicsan increase in emergency income support for workers on suspended contracts and the long-term... reaching its limits at the start of the second wave. SYRIZA is calling for an ambitious emergency hiring
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Opposition parties attack government narrative on pandemic handling
PoliticsGreek Politicsand the national doctors’ association put out a call for private sector doctors to provide emergency capacity... with the public health emergency. Kyriakos Velopoulos, leader of the far-right Greek Solution party, challenged
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Newsletter 273 -13/11/2020
to provide emergency capacity, while it was reported that 50 additional ICU beds would be added... at the AHEPA hospital in Thessaloniki said that they had run out of emergency care beds for Covid-19
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EU digital certificate seen as boost for tourism against backdrop of worsening pandemic
PoliticsGreek Politicsof emergency declared during the second wave. Under emergency measures, private clinics which do
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Newsletter 289 - 19/03/2021
health system forced Health Minister Vassilis Kikilias to announce a return to the state of emergency... the continuing addition of new facilities from the private sector. Under emergency measures, private
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PM sets criticism aside, highlights unprecedented conditions behind fires
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat it is impossible for the fire service and emergency services to prevent any damage being done by the blazes... by the emergency services, which have already been stretched to breaking point.
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Mitsotakis apology for wildfires gets sceptical reception
PoliticsGreek Politicsminister made a new televised address, in which he thanked the emergency services, the armed forces... with emergency funding of half a billion euros from the budget, will be directed by the Prime
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Crunch time nears for health system as Covid surge meets staff suspensions
PoliticsGreek Politicsare obliged under an emergency law to get vaccinated against Covid-19 by September 1, or face suspension... lined up for the vaccine mandate are the emergency services, which have some of the lowest reported
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Discussion over PEPP, SGP draw attention to rising yields
EconomyFeaturesThe Greek sovereign debt market has enjoyed a buoyant period, largely thanks to the participation of the GGBs in the ECB’s emergency asset purchase of the pandemic codenamed PEPP, which pushed... pct and approaching 2 pct respectively. As the ECB’s emergency programme comes to an end in March next
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