Greece shut down all schools for two weeks as of Wednesday, Health Minister Vassilis Kikilias announced on Tuesday, as part of measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus infections.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Mosquito sucks blood off a man's arm. Seven people have died from the West Nile virus in Greece this year, according to a report ...

Greece is battling hard to control the novel coronavirus but experts warn that its public health system has been drastically weakened by a decade of dwindling spending and staff cuts. Since March 12, ...

Greece's migration ministry on Wednesday announced new restrictions to the movement of asylum-seekers in island camps to keep out the new coronavirus, and accelerated work on new closed facilities.

ATHENS (Reuters) - Eleven people have died and 107 infected by the mosquito-borne West Nile virus in Greece so far this summer, authorities said, the highest number of reported cases since 2012.