Sotiris Tsiodras

Greek Health Ministry representative Sotiris Tsiodras on Tuesday announced 156 new cases of the coronavirus, bringing the total nationwide to 2,401.

He said 150 of these cases were registered among the residents of a refugee shelter in Kranidi, in the Peloponnese. 

Another five infected people died, Tsiodras said, pushing the death toll 121.

Two more patients infected with Covid-19 died in Greece the past 24 hours, bringing the total death toll to 119, according to press reports on Tuesday.

The first victim is a 75-year-old man with an underlying illness who died in Athens' Evangelismos Hospital early Monday morning.

The second is a 35-year-old man from the northern city of Thessaloniki who was otherwise healthy.

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.

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. 

The director of the school in the Avlonas Prison for Young Offenders, in northern Attica, appealed to Sotiris Tsiodras, head of the Health Ministry's task force fighting the new coronavirus, to take additional measures to protect the health of inmates.

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.

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. 

Greek health authorities reported one more death from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours in the country, with overall fatalities standing at 102.

Health Ministry spokesman and infectious disease expert Sotiris Tsiodras said in his daily briefing that the average age for the victims was 73 years.