CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC

The ILO’s latest projection for the last quarter is a loss of 245 million full-time jobs, which is much higher than the initial projections.

Before autumn new coronavirus cases have risen sharply and hospital ICUs are already strained as nationwide they are 37.5 percent full and the percentage is much higher in Attica.

The “Conspiracy Theorists International” also has a Greek branch as an expose in To Vima on Sunday reported.

Indisputably the worsening pandemic will aggravate public health and recessionary conditions and the endurance of everyone will be challenged.

It revealed that the economy’s exclusive reliance on tourism just as all things one-sided is dangerous while risk-spreading can save the day.

Ιt is curious that the problems of the tourism sector have been highlighted more than the problems of other sectors which are not in the news.

In an exclusive interview with To Vima English Charokopos lays out the heart-wrenching moments of watching a patient die with no relative allowed at their bedside and the burden of being in America’s epidemiological ground zero.

All of his actions regarding the pandemic highlighted Erdogan’s weaknesses. At first he refused to take protective measures against the epidemic. He ignored the warnings of scientists.

Contact tracing is also continuing on the island of Lesvos, where two recently arrived migrants were confirmed infected by the coronavirus.

Many of the consequences of the pandemic, however, will not go away but will continue to impact on the economy and society.

It appears that the EU’s new seven-year budget will be the vehicle for guaranteeing loans for funding the needs of member-states.

Confronted by the pressures of his presidential campaign Mr. Trump is increasingly losing all sense of measure and his contact with reality and is full of negative surprises.

The projections of analysts, economists, and international organisations point to an horrific landscape the day after the pandemic.

At this juncture one can see how correct the decision of the economic team of the previous government was to shield the budget and endow it with a cash buffer that can prove extremely useful.

NSRF funding (known by the acronym ESPA in Greece) has offered crucial development support for the Greek economy for decades and in particular during the recent economic crisis.

The bonus that the government announced will be paid to hospital workers and the staff of the Underministry of Civil Protection is an expression of the basic recognition and gratitude of the state to all those who day and night are transcending themselves in the battle against the Coronavirus. Alas it takes such trials for […]

The drastic reduction in the number of flights of European and other air carriers by 70 percent or higher is an early indication of the travails that are in store for Greek tourism.

'The restrictions that have been imposed upon us may seem asphyxiating for our temperament as Greeks. However, we should and can comply,' said President Katerina Sakellaropoulou.

Sakellaropoulou said that the country’s objective is "to ward off new dangers, to prevent new threats without stopping the struggle for social and economic reconstruction and without discounts in the functioning of democratic government and the rule of law,

The World Health Organisation (WHO) expressed heightened concerns about the sudden rise in incidence and warned about a prospective pandemic.