News archive of October 2020

Police in Igoumenitsa, western Greece, on Friday were questioning five suspected human traffickers believed to have been planning the transfer of 48 undocumented migrants from the coastal town of Parga to Italy on a sailing boat on Thursday.

Greek apparel exports slid 29% in the first eight months of the year to 490 million euros, against €692 million in the same period last year, according to data from Greece's Association of Apparel and Textile Producers (SEPEE).

Greek households are suffering a major blow from the pandemic, as in the second quarter of the year alone, which included the lockdown, their collective disposable income went down by 3.9 billion euros, or by 11.8% compared to the same time last year.

Clocks in Greece should be set back an hour at 4 a.m. on Sunday to 3 a.m. as Daylight Saving Time ends, the Infrastructure and Transport Ministry announced on Friday.

The next time clocks will change will be on the last Sunday of March 2021, when official summer time will begin.

Stocks at Athinon Avenue headed higher on Friday after another quiet session, with traders harboring little hope of any significant shifts in the rating reports by Standard & Poor's and DBRS, due late on Friday. Pressure is set to resume in the new week, unless there is a dramatic deterioration in public health situation across the country.

The Minister of Health, Nelu Tataru, on Friday evening explained why mortality is very high in Romania in patients infected with the novel coronavirus, showing that the authorities report all deaths caused the virus or by decompensation of pathologies concomitant with the SARS-CoV-2.

A Turkish-flagged tanker that ran into engine problems off the coast of the southern Aegean island of Milos on Friday morning was towed to the Turkish port of Marmaris later in the day, according to reports.

The vessel, which has an 11-member crew - all Turkish nationals - was reportedly adrift some 20 nautical miles south off Milos after suffering a mechanical failure.

The suicide of a care home owner, after a patient, two employees and he tested positive for Covid-19, highlights how war today is waged not only on battlefields and with mass mobilizations. It is in our daily lives.

The police's cybercrime unit has warned the public to be careful of opening emails that may be spreading malware.

More specifically, victims receive a message from an unknown email address, in which the displayed sender's name appears to their contact list.

The pandemic is, thankfully, global in scale - thankfully in the sense that no state is fighting the virus on its own. 

Greece is able to draw from the experience of other countries and compare epidemiological profiles and performances. Figures show that despite the surge in infections in Greece, the virus can still be brought under control.