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Seven Greeks from Nursing Home Hospitalised with COVID-19 in Thessaloniki

August 12, 2020

By Athens News Agency

A elderly couple wearing face masks sit outside AHEPA hospital in the northern port city of Thessaloniki, Greece, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020. Greek authorities have confirmed the country's first case of the new conronavirus. The health ministry's head of infectious diseases, Sotiris Tsiodras, said the case was a 38-year-old woman in Thessaloniki who had recently traveled to northern Italy. (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos)

Greece Virus Outbreak

THESSALONIKI — Seven elderly people from a nursing home in Thessaloniki are being hospitalised at Papanikolaou hospital's clinic for COVID-19. The elderly that are suffering from other health problems were rushed to hospital after being found positive with COVID-19, an announcement said.

Professor of infectious diseases and Health Ministry's spokesman for COVID-19 Professor Sotiris Tsiodras and the general secretary for Civil Protection Vassilis Papageorgiou will depart for Thessaloniki at Deputy Civil Protection and Crises Management Minister Nikos Hardalias' orders.

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