Athens hospital

Archbishop Anastasios of Albania is in critical condition, doctors said Sunday.

"Today's state of the health of His Beatitude Archbishop Anastasios is deemed critical by the attending physicians," the Evangelismos hospital said in a statement Sunday.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens visited Anastasios in the central Athens hospital Sunday.

Greece's anti-terrorism unit has accused three people of participating in a terrorist group, following a bomb explosion which killed a 36-year-old man and seriously hurt a woman in an apartment in Athens this week, police said on Saturday.

The case involving the deaths of four infants in Amaliada is unfolding like a thriller, following reports linking a 24-year-old woman to all four tragic incidents. Two of the babies were her own, while the other two belonged to her friends.

A 50-year-old man died as the result of a worksite accident on the island of Evia on Friday, while another man was seriously injured.

According to local media sources, the incident transpired around midday when the two men fell from a great height.

An electronic platform at the operations headquarters of the National Center for Emergency Assistance that had fallen into disuse has been reactivated on the orders of the Health Ministry in a bid to tackle overcrowding at public hospitals.

European royalty gathered in Athens on Monday for the funeral of former King Constantine of Greece, born a prince but spurned by his country which abolished the monarchy in 1974.

Greece's former King Constantine II, who died on Tuesday night aged 82, will be buried privately at a former royal estate north of Athens, the Greek government said on Wednesday.

Deposed by military rulers and spurned by his subjects who voted to ditch the monarchy in 1974, Constantine II was the only son of King Paul and Queen Frederica of Greece.

A 70-year-old man and a 51-year-old woman were on Wednesday being treated at an Athens hospital for injuries sustained when their speedboat crashed into rocks in the bay at Agios Sostis on the Aegean island of Serifos on Tuesday.

Greece's coronavirus death toll rose to 172 in the early hours of Monday after an 82-year-old woman died in an Athens hospital, following 24 hours without a fatality.

According to media reports, the woman had been admitted to Evangelismos Hospital with Covid-19 on April 17 and suffered underlying health problems.

Three more coronavirus patients have died since the last government briefing Saturday afternoon, raising total fatalities to 96.

According to sources, the three were men, two treateed at an Athens hospital and the third in Thessaloniki.