National Organization for Public Health

The National Organization for Public Health (EODY) has teamed up with a nongovernment organization dedicated to improving living conditions on Greece's remote islands to bring coronavirus testing to communities that are cut off from medical facilities.

A Roma settlement in Larissa, central Greece, has been put in quarantine for the second time in just over a month after 35 residents tested positive for the new coronavirus.

The coronavirus pandemic is not over and people should not be letting down their guard, the president of the National Organization for Public Health (EODY) warned on Tuesday.

Greece is developing a three-point plan to help reopen the country to tourism after arrivals came to a halt as a result of nationwide lockdowns and extensive flight bans aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus.

A judicial investigation into a private Athens clinic that was shut down following a coronavirus outbreak last week was in full swing on Tuesday, as a fourth patient from the facility died of Covid-19 earlier in the day.

The Greek government and health authorities should be in a position to start considering the relaxation of strict lockdown measures intended to contain the coronavirus epidemic as of mid-May, according to a top official.

Deputy Minister for Citizens' Protection Nikos Hardalias, Deputy Interior Minister Thodoros Livanios and government epidemic expert Sotiris Tsiodras are among an official delegation that is due to visit the site of a potentially large coronavirus outbreak in central Greece on Friday.

This weekend is billed as pivotal to the question of whether additional, more stringent measures are needed to contain the spread of the coronavirus, including an outright ban on the movement of people. 

A nurse at the health center of Karpathos became the first person on the remote Aegean island and in the Dodecanese cluster to test positive for the highly contagious new coronavirus.

The Athens municipal authority on Wednesday announced the closure of all its sports facilities for the next two weeks at least.

The decision to close the capital's open-air soccer, basketball, tennis, volleyball and handball courts comes amid a crackdown on public gatherings and circulation to stem the coronavirus.