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The number of new daily coronavirus cases has dropped below 1,000 for the first time since Oct. 26, Greek health authorities announced Sunday.

There were 904 confirmed cases over the past 24 hours, along with 101 deaths, authorities said.

The total number of confirmed infections since the start of the pandemic is 115,471, with 3,003 deaths.

Greece's committee of health experts is expected to convene on Monday to decide on whether to allow schools to reopen briefly ahead of the Christmas holidays.

Schools had been scheduled to reopen on Monday with the expiry of the second lockdown extension, though the decision was postponed over the persistence of a high number of new coronavirus infections and hospitalizations.

A network of 10 public hospitals will be spearheading a new program for improving procedures aimed at preventing hospital-acquired infections (HAIs), comprising teams of experts from different organizations and health facilities.

A memorandum of understanding between The Cooperation Council of Turkic Speaking States (CCTS) and the World Health Organization (WHO) to develop cooperation began operation.

Montreal – Public Administration Minister Boštjan Koritnik took part on Friday in a virtual session of the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence, the first meeting of the alliance founded this summer. Koritnik said Slovenia was working on a national AI programme.

Two men were arrested

The Central Electoral Bureau (BEC) requested, at Saturday's sitting, the Romanian Post - Posta Romana - SA National Company for more information on the vote expressed by correspondence in the parliamentary election by Romanians in the Diaspora.

The 9th Thessaloniki International Symposium continues on Monday with its second public debate. The theme is "Global Recession and the Greek Economy."

The event features the head of the Foundation for Economic and Industrial research (IOBE), Nikos Vettas, and the director of the Center for European Policy Studies, Daniel Gros.

As many as 8,072 new cases of people infected with SARS-CoV-2 have been recorded in the last 24 hours, following 32,441 national tests, the Strategic Communication Group (GCS) reported on Saturday. These are cases that have not previously had a positive test, the GCS states. On the territory of Romania, 508,345 cases of people infected with the novel coronavirus have been confirmed to date.

University of Oxford professor emeritus of ancient history Robert Parker has been invited by the British School at Athens to deliver a lecture on "New Discoveries and New Problems in Greek Religion," on Tuesday, December 8, at 7 p.m. Greek time.