Sarigiannis

Sarigiannis projects 4,000 COVID-19 deaths by end of year, total over 20,000

University of Thessaloniki Professor of Environmental Engineering Dimosthenis Sarigiannis is projecting that the peak of the current surge of the COVID-19 epidemic will be around 17 December.

"The environment will be difficult at Christmas," he said, with more than a touch of understatement.

Impassioned plea from hospital doctors for immediate steps to prevent collapse of NHS

The situation at public hospitals (the only one that treat COVID-19 patients), with rough shifts of even 36 hours for exhausted hospital doctors and patients being treated on cots in corridors, has raised a series of issues that must be urgently addressed in order to avert a collapse of Greece's National Health System (NHS).

NHS on verge of collapse, hospital doctors demand immediate emergency measures

The situation at public hospitals (the only one that treat COVID-19 patients), with rough shifts of even 36 hours for exhausted hospital doctors and patients being treated on cots in corridors, has raised a series of issues that must be urgently addressed in order to avert a collapse of Greece's National Health System (NHS).