At the start of the year, Shay Fan felt relief: Vaccinations were on their way. Her relief turned to joy when her parents and in-laws got their shots.
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As the vast majority of the world’s population has been in some form of lockdown, a side effect of the pandemic has been an immense loss of life’s capital of chance.
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AEGINA – From her garden on a sunny Greek island, Rowena Harding works with governments and charities across the globe.
Six in 10 members of the Greek Panel of Economists at KEFiM, the Athens-based Markos Dragoumis Center for Liberal Studies, favor antitrust measures against big social media platforms given their dominant position in the market and their consequent influence on public opinion.
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Every new day brings the fresh realization that Covid-19 has brought a whole lot of trouble to the world at large.
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We might still be unsure of how the novel coronavirus was born nor when it will cease to plague us, but we do know that its power lies in how it exploits human nature and human weakness to spread, to mutate, to develop.
The struggle at sea has always been tough and relentless. During my 35-year struggle, there were many times I was told I was not going to make it.
As part of a plan to tackle drug use among the homeless in the center of Athens, a new dormitory structure is set to open in the downtown area of Agios Pavlos.
The economic support measures for employed and unemployed workers will remain in force in April, Labor and Social Affairs Minister Kostis Hatzidakis stated on Monday.
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The extent of pandemic fatigue among the general public was reflected in the most recent poll on Monday by Pulse on behalf of Skai TV which showed that more than a third of those surveyed called for an immediate easing of the restrictive measures.
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The course of Greece’s vaccination program is emerging as the key parameter for stopping the pandemic and gradually returning to normalcy.
Clocks switch to Daylight Saving Time on Sunday, which means time in Greece will go forward one hour from 3 a.m. to 4 a.m., the Interior Ministry announced on Friday.
The answer is not evident. The question was asked by the Center for Liberal Studies (in a survey conducted in December 2020 by MARC). The question was “which, according to your opinion, is Greece’s most important achievement during the last two hundred years?” The most popular answer (11.6%) was Greece joining the European Union and […]
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More than 200,000 Americans flocked to the Affordable Care Act’s online marketplace to sign up for health insurance during the first two weeks of an open enrollment period created by President Joe Biden.
The compulsory confinement of people at home due to the coronavirus pandemic has not led to an increase in births, according to the latest data of the Interior Ministry for the months of November and December 2020 – more than nine months since the first lockdown.
Democrats Abroad Greece Women’s Caucus will hold an online conversation on March 31 at 8 p.m. via Zoom for the Women’s Web March: Sexual Harassment, Violence Against Women and the Pandemic.
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