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In ancient Athens, the agora was where citizens gathered to hear news, discuss and, later, trade. The agora was the heart of the city’s political, cultural and spiritual life. It is this spirit we hope to channel in this section of the website. Here, the Agora is a public forum for discussing events unfolding in Greece and beyond.

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Posts on October 2021

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Photo via https://flic.kr/p/p4CN5M Awaiting the magic wand that will end the pandemic

At the hospital, we meet 53-year-old patient Aleksandar. He openly told the camera that they discovered large clots in his lungs and that now the doctors are not letting him out of bed in the respiratory department. Prior to this, he says, he had no health problems. Despite everything he has gone through and the long recovery that awaits him, he smilingly said he still will not get the vaccine.

Contributor: Ivor Fuka

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Categories: Europe (281), Politics (384), Society (140)

Photo via https://flic.kr/p/2knw6Df Serbia’s road to collective immunity: A tale of two realities

The enthusiasm in the first months of this year regarding the mass vaccination in Serbia was so high that in March, the country was ranked highest in Europe in terms of the number of fully vaccinated people per million inhabitants. Eight months later, less than half of the total population has been vaccinated, and Serbia is once again ranking highest in Europe, but also fourth in the world! - this time, unfortunately, in terms of the number of new cases of Covid-19 per million inhabitants.

Contributor: Denis Kolundzija

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Categories: Europe (281), Politics (384), Society (140)

Photo via https://flic.kr/p/7ZZiPM First-wave champion Greece stumbles at vaccine roll-out

It is perhaps because of the euphoria brought by tourism – both the ability of Greeks themselves to enjoy a holiday, and the positive impact on the national economy - that the general public has been willing to tolerate daily case numbers averaging between 2,000 and 3,000 throughout the summer, and double-digit daily fatalities climbing above 40 going into September, which experts have taken to describing as “a busload of people going off a cliff every day”.

Contributor: Georgia Nakou

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Categories: Europe (281), Politics (384), Society (140), Greece (493)

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