Thessaloniki's AHEPA Hospital

Two elderly women from a retirement home in northern Greece who where among the 33 of the 150 residents and three staff members who had tested positive for Covid-19 died on Thursday, bringing the daily death toll to four.

The 88-year-old woman was being treated in Thessaloniki's AHEPA hospital and the 91-year-old was in Papanikolaou Hospital.

One more patient died from Covid-19 while being treated in Thessaloniki's AHEPA hospital on Wednesday evening, according to media reports.

The victim is a 57-year-old woman who had an underlying illness, the reports said.

The new fatality brings the unofficial death toll to 103. 

The death toll from the coronavirus pandemic has risen to 99 after another hospitalized patient passed away, reports said on Monday.

The 76-year-old man had been in the intensive unit of Thessaloniki's Ahepa hospital. 

The official number of cases of coronavirus in Greece, as reported on Sunday by the Health Ministry, stands at 2,114. 

Five people have died from Covid-19 by this afternoon within a matter of hours bringing the death toll to 37 in Greece.

Three of the latest victims were elderly people who were being treated in Athens, Thessaloniki, and Alexandroupolis.

Health Minister Vassilis Kikilias cancelled all leave for staff at his ministry and at all state-run hospitals nationwide after health authorities recorded the first coronavirus case in northern Greece.

A Greek woman who recently returned home from northern Italy became Greece's first coronavirus case and is being closely monitored, while authorities have ordered the closing of one school in Thessaloniki, the health ministry said today.

She is being treated at Thessaloniki's Ahepa Hospital.

Two anarchists arrested last Wednesday following a thwarted heist on a money delivery van outside Thessaloniki's AHEPA Hospital were remanded in custody on Tuesday after defending themselves before an investigating magistrate.

Two anarchists arrested on Wednesday after attempting to rob a money delivery van outside Thessaloniki's AHEPA Hospital are to face an investigating magistrate in the northern port city on armed robbery charges on Tuesday while police step up a probe into their suspected links to Greek guerrilla groups.

Two anarchists arrested on Wednesday following a botched holdup of a money delivery van at Thessaloniki's AHEPA Hospital, who are thought to have links to guerrilla groups Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire and Group of Popular Fighters, have been given until Tuesday to prepare their defense.

The arrest of two suspects on Wednesday in connection with a botched holdup of a money delivery van at Thessaloniki's AHEPA Hospital was the result of a months-long investigation by the police's counterterrorism department, Kathimerini understands.