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![Leslie Vosshall, a neuroscientist at Rockefeller University, in New York on December 2, 2020. Even before the pandemic, many female scientists felt unsupported in their fields and now, some are hitting a breaking point. [Sarah Blesener/The New York Times]](https://www.ekathimerini.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/SCI-WOMEN-INDUSTRY-2-320x200.jpg)
APOORVA MANDAVILLI
Like many women during the pandemic, Alisa Stephens found working from home to be a series of wearying challenges.
Greek health authorities announced 3,089 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday from a total of 63,710 tests.
European Union countries formally agreed on Wednesday to launch Covid travel passes as a step towards reopening to tourism this summer and will negotiate details with the bloc’s lawmakers in May, two diplomatic sources said.
The Municipality of Athens is close to completing the revamp of part of the capital’s commercial center and pedestrian zones which had been envisaged years ago but was never implemented.
Officials of France’s Naval Group on Tuesday presented the company’s proposal to supply frigates to the Hellenic Navy at the French Embassy in Athens.
President Tayyip Erdogan accused Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi on Wednesday of behaving with “impertinence and disrespect” after he called the Turkish leader a “dictator”.
Rarely in the past 75 post-war years has the world faced as much fluidity, uncertainty, insecurity and lack of cohesion as it does right now. Perhaps this is because the so-called X factor that determines developments is so unpredictable.
NEWS
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Labor Minister Kostis Hatzidakis and Deputy Health Minister Vassilis Kotzamanis announced on Wednesday that self-administered coronavirus tests will be mandatory for a variety of public and private sector employees starting on Monday.
ECONOMY
Greece must boost its investments and reforms in the post-pandemic period, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) stresses in its “Going for Growth” report released on Wednesday.
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![Sofia-Aikaterini Pantazi, managing director of the General State Archives of Corfu, northwestern Greece, Tuesday, holds a book containing the birth and baptism registry of Britain's Prince Philip, page at right, signed in October 1921. [Thanassis Stavrakis/AP]](https://www.ekathimerini.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/corfu_philip_AP-320x200.jpg)
![An aerial view of Mon Repos, a 19th century neoclassical villa in which Prince Philip, husband of Queen Elisabeth, was born and currently accommodates an archaeological museum, on the island of Corfu, Greece, April 10, 2021. Picture taken with a drone. [Alkis Konstantinidis/Reuters]](https://www.ekathimerini.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/mon_repo_reuters-320x200.jpg)
SPORTS
Panathinaikos bowed out of this season’s Euroleague with two losses in Russia on Monday and Wednesday, to Zenit and CSKA Moscow respectively.
CULTURE
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In celebration of the bicentennial of the Greek Revolution, the Athens Concert Hall is streaming a performance by the Meizon men’s choir of “Hymn to Freedom.”
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