Experts in Greece worried about new rise in cases as EU threatens AstraZeneca with export ban

As supply problems continue to hamper vaccination campaigns in the European Union, health authorities in Greece have expressed intense concern over the latest epidemiological data, which show a rise in coronavirus infections in the last two days while there are increasing indications that the British variant of Covid-19 may have made inroads in northern Greece as well, after Athens and Crete.

It was announced Tuesday that 842 new cases of coronavirus had been recorded over the previous 24 hours, the largest number of daily cases recorded in the last 15 days. 

At least half of those cases were detected in Attica (427). Cases in central Athens were reported at 113 Tuesday (11 cases per 100,000 inhabitants), while the average number of cases in the last seven days was 52. In addition, 26 cases were recorded in eastern Attica, while the average in the previous seven days...