Zakynthos

The island community of Zakynthos in the Ionian Sea is reeling after the murder of a 37-year-old woman and the injury of her 53-year-old husband in broad daylight on Tuesday.

The couple came under fire while on a motorcycle in the Agios Sostis region.

Two undersea quakes occurred off Greek islands on Saturday, the first in the Aegean, off Crete, and the second in the Ionian Sea close to Zakynthos.

The first tremor, measuring 4.1 on the Richter scale, struck the seabed off the southeastern coast of Crete at 5.30 a.m., according to the Geodynamic Institute of the Athens National Observatory.

Athens International Airport data for April resemble the figures of small regional airports before the coronavirus outbreak, as the number of passengers through the country's main gateway last month was only marginally higher than on Zakynthos in April 2019.

A tremor measuring 4.4 on the Richter scale was recorded just after 14:00 on Saturday, in the sea off the island of Zakynthos. According to the Athens Geodynamic Insitute, the epicentre of the quake was in the sea southwest of the island at a focal depth of 10 km. No injuries or damage have been reported./thenationalherald.com

An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.4 has hit the western island of Zakynthos, but no damage has been reported.

The Athens Institute of Geodynamics reported that the temor struck at 2 p.m. on Saturday.

The epicenter was southeast of the coast of Zakynthos and at a depth of just 10 kilometers.

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.2 has struck off the western island of Zakynthos, but no injuries or damage have been reported.

The Athens Geodynamic Institute said the quake occurred at 1.41 a.m. on Friday in the Ionian Sea south of Zakynthos, between the island and the Strofades island cluster, at a depth of 10.7 kilometers.

Schools in Achaia and Ileia in the western Peloponnese as well as on the Ionian island of Zakynthos became the first in the country on Monday to start trying out a new online teaching system so that pupils sequestered at home due to the coronavirus outbreak don't miss lessons.

The 100 Percent Hotel Workshop Tour has announced the new dates for its workshops in May, after their postponement for this month.

Shortly after a second fatality from the new coronavirus was confirmed in Greece on Saturday, a third death was announced by state-run news agency ANA-MPA.

The third victim is a 67-year-old man from the island of Zakynthos.

The man, who died Saturday morning, had checked into the local hospital three days ago.

The total cases of coronavirus in Greece have risen to 66, of which 47 are among a group that traveled to Israel and Egypt in late February, the country's National Public Health Organization (EODY) reported Saturday.

No fatalities have been reported from the disease yet. A 66-year-old man, among the travelers, is in intensive care.