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Covid restrictions could be imposed on some of Greece’s most popular holiday islands amid a rapid rise in infections. The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) marked the South Aegean islands in the very high risk category of dark red last week.Officials have advised against all but essential travel to the region, which covers destinations such as Mykonos, Santorini, Rhodes and Kos.Nikos Hardalias, Greece’s Deputy Civil Protection Minister, said that Mykonos and Ios were “one step” away from further restrictions being imposed to deal with rising infections.Both islands have currently been marked as ‘orange’ under Greece’s Covid system of restrictions.

Eighties pop sensation Paul Young has opened up about a horror fall he suffered during a Greek holiday that resulted in multiple fractures to his leg and a stay in intensive care, where he underwent three emergency blood transfusions.The Wherever I Lay My Hat singer's stay on the picturesque Greek island of Santorini turned into a nightmare less than a day in when he took a nasty fall down a set of outdoor hotel steps en route to breakfast. In an exclusive chat with the Daily Mirror, 69 year old Paul recalled: "It had been spitting with rain.The going under foot, as they say, was quite good as I was walking on the flat, but when I got to the top of the steps, as soon as I put my foot on the first step, my leg slipped out from underneath me. I fell and my leg cracked as soon as I hit the step." He continued, "Once I'd gone down, I couldn't stop.There was no handrail, so nothing to hold on to.

A state of emergency has been declared on a second Greek island as earthquakes continue to rattle the south-eastern Aegean Sea - a region popular with British holidaymakers. The emergency measure ahs been announced on the island of Amorgos.

An expert has warned that the risk of a ‘major’ earthquake in the Greek islands surrounding Santorini remains, despite changes in seismic activity.

Greece’s government declared a state of emergency on Santorini on Thursday (February 6) after hundreds of undersea earthquakes shook the resort island for nearly a week.

Most young Europeans still face a long wait for Covid-19 vaccination, but Argyris Souanis, 32 years old, is about to get his shot because he is lucky enough to live on the Greek island of Santorini.Mr. Souanis will get one of the single-dose vaccines made by Johnson & Johnson that Greece’s government has decided to direct mostly to Greek islands, in a quest to fully inoculate islanders and save the cornerstone of the Greek economy: the summer tourist season.Mr.

Greece has enforced a strict night-time curfew on many popular islands, after the highest number of daily new cases was recorded since the pandemic started.

Greece is, too.Heavily reliant on tourism, the country is officially reopening to foreigners on Monday after closing its borders to most during the coronavirus pandemic. Its hopes are pinned on popular tourist destinations such as Mykonos and the islands of Rhodes, Corfu, Crete and Santorini, where regular ferry service already resumed and direct international flights are set to restart on July 1.

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