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The seasonal spike in viruses, which became more pronounced during the holidays, has, as anticipated, increased the pressure on Greece's hospitals. Driven by Covid-19, the epidemic wave of viruses - including influenza, RSV, rhinoviruses and adenoviruses - is expected to peak in the next two weeks.

Police remanded 47 people for questioning on Wednesday during pre-emptive searches in downtown Athens, amid concerns of violence breaking out at marches commemorating 15 years since the police shooting of teen Alexis Grigoropoulos.

School students, parents and teachers are planning rallies in Athens, Thessaloniki and other parts of the country on Monday to protest the government's "anti-educational" reform, as one union described the changes being planned. 

Three people were arrested in the downtown Athens district of Exarchia on Monday night during skirmishes with police on the sidelines of a march in protest at the injury of a 16-year-old girl during clashes that broke out at an anti-fascism concert in the capital's suburb of Neo Iraklio over the weekend.
 

An expert in disaster management has voiced concern that successive wildfires and heatwaves will spell the "environmental collapse" of Attica, home to the Greek capital, Athens, as the region continues to battle major wildfires burning through forests, brush, pastureland, residential settlements, farms and businesses.  

Two separate protests were held in central Athens on Thursday evening protesting about the causes of the Pylos shipwreck tragedy.

Workers' unions gathered at Syntagma Square while leftist and antiracist organizations gathered at the old Athens University building on Panepistimiou Street, before marching through the city center.

Even the microchips in our computers are fallible, making "silent" errors that go unnoticed. This is where Athens University professor of computer architecture Dimitris Gizopoulos and his research team come in, having been assigned the task by Meta of assessing the scope of the problem and containing it.

Weather events and patterns in the Mediterranean indicate that the region, including Greece, will experience a summer as hot if not hotter than the last, which brought successive heatwaves and raised the climate change alarm. 

The planet's population is expected to grow to around 10 billion before the end of the 21st century, according to United Nations projections. But this cannot be said for Europe, which, according to the same estimates, will see its numbers shrink to 7.3% of the world by 2050 from 22% in 1950 and 9.5% today.

Myrsini Zorba, a former culture minister, has passed away at the age of 74. The news of her death was announced on her Facebook page.