On the occasion of the upgrading of the Secretary General of the Ministry of Finance Christos Triantopoulos to Deputy Minister in charge of state aid and recovery from natural disasters, in order for the management mechanism to work immediately to support the residents and the reconstruction of the fire area The following changes are taking place:
The Municipality of Athens, for the first time, through the Development and Tourism Promotion Company (EATA), has activated the process for the certification of the destination as sustainable - according to the 17 United Nations Goals - with the aim of creating a better and even more competitive city .
Small pockets of wildfires continue to burn in areas of the Ancient Olympia township, in Ilia, western Peloponnese, Deputy Regional Director of Ilia Vassilis Yannopoulos told Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA-MPA) on Wednesday. Firefighters are focused on a region among the communities of Lasdika, Milies and Kryoneri, "where one more ground team of firefighters is expected shortly."
Costas Mantonanakis, one of the most important ancestors of Greek Tourism, passed away yesterday at the age of 95.
The full moon of August is always an opportunity to admire earth's satellite or take a romantic walk. This year, the full moon will be on August 22nd. The Ministry of Culture and Sports, under the coordination of the General Directorate of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage, organizes for another year the events of the August Full Moon offering archeological sites and museums to the public with free admission to enjoy the moonlight, as reported in his announcement.
The fire brigade is fighting the fires that broke out in areas of Halkidiki after the summer storm.
A wildfire is burning out of control at Gortinia, Arcadia region in the Peloponnese, which has led to the evacuation of 12 communities there via the 112 European Emergency Number, the Fire Brigade reported on Tuesday.
Researchers in Britain, led by a Greek woman from the diaspora, have developed an innovative artificial intelligence system that can recognize the first signs of dementia in the brain before patients even have the first symptoms and before neurologists can make a diagnosis. The system, which does not need more than one imaging of the brain to draw conclusions, thanks to a special algorithm, has already begun to be tested clinically, although it is too early to say when it will be possible to use it in practice.
The measures to support the recovery of households and businesses after the devastating fires that broke out on August 3 were outlined by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Tuesday, in a public address during an ongoing cabinet meeting.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Monday announced a special allocation of 500 million euros from the state budget for Attica Region and Evia island to immediately help residents who lost homes and businesses in wildfires this week.
People infected with the coronavirus Beta ("South African") variant, probably forgotten because of the now dominant Delta, are more likely to need admission to an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and die from Covid-19 than those with the disease contracting the "British" Alpha variant, according to a study from Qatar.
Another difficult night was experienced by residents in northern Evia, where the fire is raging for the 8th day, with the fire front now heading from Avgaria to Kamaria and Kamatriades, where a human chain was formed to stop its course, and the fires are continuous on many fronts.
A new molecular methodology for sensitive detection and quantification of mutant strains / variants of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater samples using a range of molecular methods, including Next Generation Sequencing / NGS, has been developed by the Kapodistrian University of Athens (EKPA), through the cooperation of research units, in the framework of a program supervised by Professor Andreas Skorilas.
The Greek national men's polo team won a silver medal at the Olympic Games of Tokyo on Sunday.