Upward infection trend continues with 5 deaths in 24 hours

Greek health authorities were concerned on Thursday after the National Organization of Public Health (EODY) announced five fatalities related to the coronavirus in the past 24 hours and 204 new infections, marking a continuation of a new upward trend. 

Of the five deaths, two involved residents of a retirement home near Thessaloniki where dozens of people tested positive for Covid-19 earlier this week. 

A Thessaloniki prosecutor has ordered an investigation into the retirement home in Asvestochori, a small town on the outskirts of Thessaloniki, where 33 residents and three staff members have tested positive for Covid-19. The residents of the facility were hospitalized on Wednesday, most with mild symptoms.

According to the government's chief epidemiologist Sotiris Tsiodras, the virus is believed to have been spread by a staff member who caught it from a...

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