Nikos Hardalias

Greek Health Ministry spokesman Sotiris Tsiodras on Monday announced 10 new coronavirus cases, raising the total in the country to 2,245. 

Addressing a media conference, Tsiodras added that the death toll has risen to 116 with six more people in hospital passing away. The average age of the dead is 74 years, he said.

The Greek government has doubled fines and included removal or car plates for anyone who travels without reason for Orthodox Easter this weekend.

Greek Health Ministry spokesman Sotiris Tsiodras on Thursday announced 15 new coronavirus cases, bringing the total number of cases recorded in the country to 2,207.

The death toll rose to 105 after another three patients who contracted the virus died over the past 24 hours, Tsiodras said. 

Greek Health Ministry spokesman Sotiris Tsiodras on Thursday announced 15 new coronavirus cases, bringing the total number of cases recorded in the country to 2,207.

The death toll rose to 105 after another three patients who contracted the virus died over the past 24 hours, Tsiodras said. 

As scientists warn that social distancing measures might have to remain in place to some degree for up to two years before natural immunity to the coronavirus has been established, government officials said on Wednesday it is too early to talk about relaxing a lockdown imposed last month.

Greece's chief adviser and spokesman for the coronavirus epidemic is the most popular person in Greece right now, a recent poll has shown.

Greek health teams conducted numerous tests in several retirement homes around the region of Attica in the past 48 hours after at least 12 residents in a home in Nea Makri, east Attica, tested positive for coronavirus, Deputy Minister of Civil Protection Nikos Hardalias said on Monday's regular briefing.
The infected residents were transferred to Athens' Sotiris Hospital.

A retirement home in Nea Makri, east of Athens, was put under quarantine late on Sunday after residents tested positive for the coronavirus. 

In comments to Skai television on Monday, Deputy Health Minister Vassilis Kotzamanis said that at least 12 people at the home had tested positive for Covid-19. 

The government has asked for a prosecutor to press charges against two priests who provided communion to the faithful Sunday despite a ban on church attendance.

One of the priests, in the Athens neighborhood of Koukaki, was photographed from a nearby building secretly giving communion to people through the back door.

Greek authorities on Friday stressed that the continued containment of the coronavirus pandemic will be a delicate affair after quarantining a Roma settlement on the outskirts of Larissa in central Greece, following an outbreak of the virus among residents.