ATHENS – While hoping for tourists to start coming in the spring, Greece for now pushed back a ban on domestic flights to Feb. 15 and for international flights to Feb. 22 to hold down the spread of COVID-19.
Under the restrictions, passengers flying to Greece must receive a negative polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test 72 hours prior to their arrival and undergo random testing and all foreign travellers quarantined for seven days.
Travelers from the hard-hit United Kingdom will – despite a vaccination program there – still be required to take a rapid test upon their arrival, while flights from Turkey remain suspended, the civil aviation authority said, Reuters reported.
Most flights from non-European Union countries including the nearly-isolated United States are prohibited, with the exception of 10 countries including the UK.
On domestic flights, only essential travel is permitted. A second wave of the Coronavirus brought the total cases to 163,213 as of Feb. 7 and 5,951 deaths, almost a year after the pandemic began in earnest.
ATHENS - Greece is in a prime position to be able to offer visitors wellness and spas among tourist destinations as it seeks to diversity what it can off, particularly through its thermal mineral springs, said speakers at the Global Wellness Economy conference in the capital.
FALMOUTH, MA – The police in Falmouth have identified the victim in an accident involving a car plunging into the ocean on February 20, NBC10 Boston reported.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
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