Ioannina

Alexander Alexakis, professor of Byzantine philology at the University of Ioannina, will be speaking in the Byzantine Dialogues online lecture series organized by the American School of Classical Studies on February 2, starting at 7 p.m. Greek time.

The American School of Classical Studies at Athens is hosting a webinar titled "Monuments for 1821: Fruitless Proposals for a Panhellenic Heroon." The event will host Dr Dora Markatou, former Associate Professor at the Department of History and Archeology of the University of Ioannina, as guest speaker.

Many parts of northwestern Greece sustained floods, rockfalls and other damage as heavy rain and gale-force winds swept into Greece on Monday, ending a spell of clear skies and unseasonably warm temperatures.

One of the very few Greek Jews who survived the Holocaust, Esther Cohen, has died in her native Ioannina in northwestern Greece. She was 96. 

She was the only survivor in her family as her parents and siblings were killed. There are now only 20 Greek Jews that survived the Holocaust who are still alive.

She was also the second to last Jew left in Ioannina.

Greek authorities approved the transfer of three ethnic Greeks from Albania with Covid-19 to the University Hospital of Ioannina in northwestern Greece for treatment, according to state-run news agency ANA-MPA.

The three patients, who are seriously ill, were driven across the border in Kakavia in ambulances on Monday night.

Academic authorities at the universities of Ioannina and Thessaloniki are looking for ways to ensure the safe return of more than 200 Greek students who are trapped in Spain and Italy following travel bans due to a severe coronavirus outbreak in both countries.

The owner of a cram school in the town of Ioannina, northwestern Greece, was arrested on Thursday afternoon for holding a class despite government orders to suspend the operation of all schools and universities for 14 days as part of efforts to contain spread of coronavirus.

A ferryboat that had been carrying a possible coronavirus case docked at the port of Patra in western Greece on Friday evening after dropping off the patient at the port of Igoumenitsa further north.

Greek oil enterprise Energean has secured its entry into Block 2 of the Ionian Sea by buying out the stake of French company Total, which had been seeking to disengage from the region for months.

Police have filed charges against a doctor at the University Hospital of Ioannina in northwestern Greece for allegedly asking for a bribe to provide medical treatment to a patient and for breach of duty.