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Newsletter 304 - 09/07/2021
economic impact A surge in Covid cases and the complications this creates for the tourism season... hoping not to have to deal with this summer. More than 2,000 daily cases were announced on Thursday... they intended to delay vaccination as long as possible. For the time being, the increase in cases has
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Scrutiny over mandatory vaccines puts govt on tricky ground
PoliticsGreek Politicsvaccinations amid a steady rise in coronavirus cases. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced... to sit indoors. Greece announced more than 3,000 new Covid cases on Tuesday. Scientists reportedly expect 4,500 daily cases by August. They also point to the rise of hospitalisations, which in Crete
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Newsletter 306 - 23/07/2021
recently, as the number of Covid cases rose rapidly this week and the vaccination programme continues... becomes the dominant variant across the country, while also noting that the average age of new cases... onwards. According to reports, modelling of the virus points to as many as 6,500 new Coronavirus cases
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Stalled vaccination campaign emerges as biggest headache amid fourth wave warnings
PoliticsGreek Politicsauthority EODY announced on Wednesday that new reported cases of Covid-19 were down by quarter compared to the previous week, seemingly disproving earlier predictions that daily cases could reach 10,000 by the end of summer. Wednesday saw 2,919 new cases, with a positivity rate of 1.32 pct. Although
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Violent clashes at Thessaloniki school turn focus on neo-Nazi youth recruitment
PoliticsGreek Politicsin Covid cases, and yesterday the region, along with three others in northern and central Greece went... 2,817 new cases of Covid nationwide on Wednesday with the numbers showing a slight downward trend, a disproportionate number have been concentrated in the north of the country, where cases have
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Mitsotakis rules out another lockdown, dismisses criticism of new Covid measures
PoliticsGreek Politicscases and more critical hospitalisations compared to a year ago, when the last national lockdown was announced. On Wednesday, new reported cases of Covid-19 reached 6,150, slightly reduced from Tuesday...” in the eventuality of a further escalation in cases. Clearly at the back of his mind is the potential impact
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Pandemic and pushback rows spark political clashes
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe seemingly exponential rise in Covid cases, and all the knock-on effects this has, is making... in daily cases (8,613), which was more than 3,000 higher than the number recorded at the start... the PM’s line and accusing the journalist of being provocative and, even in some cases, of adopting
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Parties trade accusations over alleged interference in institutions
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe latest developments in a series of politically charged court cases, and a dispute over... party PASOK/KINAL called for “justice to shed light on both cases, which undermine trust in the political system and raise doubts about transparency and the separation of powers”. Both cases became
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SYRIZA seizes on latest spyware reports to renew pressure on government
PoliticsGreek Politicsa few days ago that of the 87 confirmed cases involving people being targeted by the Predator spyware... 27 cases, EYP had made at least one request for the right to legally wiretap the individuals... with the spyware. Since then, investigators have found 225 cases of SMS messages with infected links being sent
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Greece courts danger
Agoracases involving people being targeted by Predator, the National Intelligence Service (EYP) had... is built. This is compounded by the fact that even for everyday cases, the delivery of justice... longer to resolve these cases, according to the Union's Justice Scoreboard. At some point
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