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Greece Jets Past Romania in COVID Infections Per Million Citizens

2021-11-15 by Phil Butler

COVID-19 vaccine

Greece has set new COVID infections records for weeks, and now the country has passed Romania in infections per million of population.

Tags: ECDC, EODY, Greece coronavirus, Greece COVID, Greece vaccines, Romania COVID, Romania pandemic, vaccines

Greeks – Get Vaccinated Now, Not for the Schmuck Politicians, for All of Us

2021-08-25 by Phil Butler

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Greeks, get vaccinated. Not for the Schmuck Politicians who have fumbled on COVID. For all of us subject to new more deadly variants.

Tags: Arnold Schwarzenegger, coronavirus variants, COVID vaccine, delta plus, EODY, Greece, Greece coronavirus, Greece COVID-19, Greece tourism, Greece wildfires, Harry Theoharis, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Turkey virus, vaccines

World Leaders Push For Tourism – Putting Us All in Harm’s Way

2021-08-07 by Phil Butler

COVID nightmare

World leadership during the coronavirus pandemic has failed the people of Earth miserably. It’s a time wen economics was chosen over people.

Tags: Blue Freedom, COVID restrictions, COVID-19 Greece, EU, EU Travel, Greece amber list, Greece travel, Greece vaccine rollout, Greece vaccines, Harry Theoharis, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Mykonos, red list, vaccines

Greece’s South Aegean Islands Go ‘Dark Red’ as Blue Freedom Blows Up

2021-07-30 by Phil Butler

MYK Boat Club

The Greek government’s “Blue Freedom” scheme to put fill remote islands with tourists this summer just blew up in their political faces.

Tags: Blue Freedom, COVID vaccine, COVID warnings, crete, Crete COVID, Dark Red COVID List, EODY, Greece tourism, Harry Theoharis, Ios Island, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Mykonos, Rhodes, Tinos island, vaccines

A New Study Reveals Pfizer and Astra Zeneca Vaccines’ Effectiveness Versus Delta

2021-07-26 by Argophilia Travel News

Vaccine syringes

A study reveals the effectiveness of COVID vaccines against the Delta variant only slightly compromised versus other strains.

Tags: AstraZeneca, COVID Delta, Delta, New England Journal of Medicine, pandemic, Pfizer COVID vaccine, vaccine effects, vaccines

Greece Records 2,854 New COVID Cases in Past 24 Hours

2021-07-24 by Argophilia Travel News

Stop Covid

Greek officials have confirmed 2,854 new coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours. The government is now paying doctors to vaccinate.

Tags: EODY, EODY report, Greece COVID-19, Greece pandemic, Greece tourism, UK COVID, UK tourists, vaccines

Greece Fishtails On Sputnik V – Pays Youth to Get Vaccinated

2021-06-28 by Argophilia Travel News

No Swimming

Greece is reversing course and requiring negative coronavirus tests from all passengers arriving from Russia, even those vaccinated.

Tags: Coronavirus, delta strain, Delta variant, European Medicines Agency, Greece tourism, quaranteen, Russia travelers, Russian tourists, Russian vaccine, Sputnik V, vaccines

Greece Will Now Accept Vaccines From Almost Anywhere

2021-06-14 by Argophilia Travel News

COVID Vaccines

With a tourism sector emergency halfway through the season, Greece will allow tourists with almost any vaccine to enter the country.

Tags: COVID-19 Greece, COVID-19 Vaccine, Greece tourism, tourists, vaccines

Greece Tourism News Brief: COVID Is Still All the News That Matters

2021-04-27 by Phil Butler

WTTC

The COVID-19 pandemic still dominates every faces of travel news in Greece and worldwide. Here are Greek highlights.

Tags: Cyprus, Cyprus tourism, Greece reopening, Harry Theoharis, island vaccine program, Mitsotakis administration, pandemic Greece, Syriza, tourism 2021, vaccines, WTTC

Argo News Brief: COVID, IMF, and This Week’s Tourist Trends

2021-04-08 by Argophilia Travel News

This week travel experts discuss the need for Greece to adapt in the wake of COVID-19, and more news on the economy and summer vacations.

Tags: Bank of Greece, COVID-19 Greece, ETC, European Travel Commission, Greece economy, Greece tourism, Greece vaccine rollout, IMF, newsbriefs, vaccine rollout, vaccines, WTTC

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