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Greece Introduces COVID-19 Digital Vaccination Certificates © REUTERS / Louisa Gouliamaki Subscribe Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/europe/202101201081822451-greece-introduces-covid-19-digital-vaccination-certificates/ ATHENS (Sputnik) - Greece has started issuing digital vaccination certificates to all nationals who have been vaccinated against the coronavirus, the Greek prime ministers press service said, adding that the pilot certifi...

Ευρωκίνηση 1/20/2021 The National Herald      ATHENS – During a news conference after a recent meeting of The Holy Standing Synod of the Church of Greece the Synod responded to what it said were false allegations that have been raised against it after the Feast of the Epiphany. The Holy Synod referred also to the issue of the COVID-19 vaccines and clarified that “vaccination is not a theological or ecclesiastical issue, calling it mainly a medical-scientific issue as well as...

Orthodox Church undermines Greeces COVID pandemic measures Clerics in Greece have repeatedly flouted measures to slow coronavirus transmission. The church wields extraordinary power in officially secular Greece. Some leaders have been more cautious, but all churches were open on Epiphany On Wednesday, the Holy Synod of the Greek Orthodox Church filed a complaint with the National Council for Radio and Television accusing three TV stations of "sullying religion." The broadcasters had criticized ...

2021/01/03 16:35 Doses of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Oxford University and U.K.-based drugmaker AstraZeneca are checked as they arrive at the Princess Royal Hos... Doses of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Oxford University and U.K.-based drugmaker AstraZeneca are checked as they arrive at the Princess Royal Hospital in Haywards Heath, England, Saturday Jan. 2, 2021. The UK has 530,000 doses available for rollout from Monday. (Gareth Fuller/Pool via AP) ...

Photo source: @PrimeministerGR Greece’s first vaccinations against the coronavirus (Covid-19) were performed in reference hospitals of Attica on Sunday, in accordance with the Greek government’s vaccination operation dubbed “Eleftheria”. The country’s vaccinations were in line with the EU Vaccination Days, which sees the first Europeans being vaccinated on the same days (December 27, 28 and 29). European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Sunday tweeted: “Today the firs...

The Greek President and the Prime Minister also received the much anticipated jab Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, right, receives an injection with a dose of COVID-19 vaccine, at the Attikon University Hospital in Athens. Photo: AAP via AP/Kostas Tsironis 28 December 2020 2:55pm Vaccination against Covid-19 has officially began in Greece with two citizens and several authority figures receiving the first jabs. Doctors, nurses and the elderly rolled up their sleeves a...