ATHENS — Greece on Saturday confirmed 187 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, including 27 identified at entry points to the country.
All coronavirus cases in Greece since the pandemic broke out in Greece total 11,386. Of these, 2,219 are linked to travel abroad and 4,970 to an already registered case.
Forty Greeks are intubated. Ten are women and the median age of all is 70 years. An 82.5 pct have an underlying condition or are aged 70 and above. A total of 157 people have been discharged since the start of the pandemic in Greece.
In addition, it was announced that one person died in the last 24 hours, bringing the fatalities total to 280. Of the total, 103 were women, while the median age for all was 78 years and 96.1 pct had an underlying condition and/or age 70 and above.
He wasn’t the first one to think about it but a humor columnist for POLITICO suggested - ironically, of course - that if Greeks want back the stolen Parthenon Marbles in the British Museum that they should just steal them back, old boy.
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THRU DECEMBER 10 CHICAGO – The National Hellenic Museum (NHM), 333 S.
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