Testing of the new Omicron vaccine has begun on a group of 1,420 volunteers from South Africa and the United States. It includes participants aged 18-55 years. Pfizer/BioNTech announced the start of clinical trials today. Participants will be divided into three groups: those who received two doses of the existing Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, who received three […]
ΔΕΔΔΗΕ reports that in 80% of power outages, problems are fixed. However, the remaining 20% is quite a lot, people continue to be left without heat and light. Work to restore power supply, according to ΔΕΔΔΗΕ, continues. Repairmen are doing everything possible to quickly return people to normal living conditions. In Attica, damage was repaired […]
Against the backdrop of potential payouts for those trapped on Attiki Odos, information has emerged about support for other victims. Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Kostas A. Karamanlis informedthat he turned to TRAINOSE with a request to pay 1,000 euros to the passengers who ended up on the Athens-Thessaloniki and Thessaloniki-Athens routes yesterday. As compensation […]
On Wednesday morning you should be extremely careful – it will be cold and slippery. Kostas Lagouvardos, director of research at the Athens Observatory, warns: “Wednesday will be the heaviest day after the bad weather due to frost. Today the temperature hasn’t dropped much due to the clouds, however we will have an overcast night […]
At first, everything looked beautiful and touching – enthusiastic children caught falling snowflakes, and adults together poured out into the streets to enjoy such a rare snowfall in Athens, despite the cold and wind. Apparently, the government in full force also went for a walk, ignoring the ominous forecasts of weather forecasters. And … walked […]
They knew at least a week in advance that two cyclones would hit central Greece, the Aegean islands and Crete in succession. It was known that the second wave of bad weather would be more intense than the first. Thanks to meteorologists, they knew in detail how bad weather would manifest itself. They even knew […]
Both the “disappearance” of Kyriakos Mitsotakis and rumors of forthcoming compensation for drivers and passengers of cars stuck in the snow that suffered at Attiki Odos provoked a furious reaction. What was it? Criminal negligence or banal incompetence? Representatives of political parties unleashed furious anger on the prime minister and the government. SYRIZA representative Nassos […]
It is officially announced that tomorrow, Wednesday 26.01, Elpis is a day off due to bad weather. Endless problems and incredible difficulties in movement do not allow citizens to go to work. At an emergency briefing, Climate Change and Civil Protection Minister Christos Stylianides said that the general holiday in Attica, the Cyclades, the Dodecanese […]
The Omicron strain can survive longer on plastic surfaces and on human skin than previous variants of the coronavirus, according to Japanese scientists who conducted comparative laboratory experiments. Researchers led by Dr. Ryohei Hiroshe of the Department of Infectious Diseases at Kyoto Medical University, who made a preliminary publication on medRxiv, according to Reuters, found […]