News Bulletin at 16:00 ATHENS 9.84
Increased traffic, at this time, in Kifissos, in the upstream stream, from Paraliaki to Petrou Ralli, and in the inlet stream from Metamorfosi to N. Philadelphia. Traffic problems in the streets around Syntagma Square.
Aid of 400 million euros in January to cover the increase in electricity, the Prime Minister announced in advance. He also spoke about a program to replace old electrical appliances, facilities and will be recycled. Specifying the measures, the Minister of Environment & Energy, Costas, said that all the basic houses will be subsidized, regardless of area, ie about 4 million supply. For the first 150 kilowatt hours, 80% were delivered, with the average aid for each household coming to 42 euros. In households included in the social tariff, the average monthly is 54 euros. As far as natural gas is concerned, the average subsidy will amount to 20 euros. The resources will come from the Energy Transition Fund.
… For “measures below the needs”, spoke the Head of Finance of SYRIZA, Efi Ahtsioglou, noting that “Mitsotaki announcements reduce by 15% the subsidy for household electricity bills”. “The problem is that the subsidies mentioned are not enough to pay the” inflated “bills from households and businesses,” he stressed to KINAL.
On the “front” of the coronavirus: Greece remains in the deep “red” for the 4th consecutive week according to the renewed ECDC map, at a time when the Omicron variant has prevailed in the community and, according to the Minister of Health, Thanos Plevris, now rises in 90% of cases. However, as Mr. Plevris stated in Athens 9.84, “out of the approximately 650 imports that we have daily for coronavirus, a 30-40% concerns the cases of Delta mutation, so from these imports we probably have pressure on the ICU”. He also said that there will be an increase in cases in the educational community and that there will be a prioritization of students regarding the rapid test in public structures. The Ministry of Health does not yet have that “Sismanogleio” will become a hospital only for Covid cases, while the NIMTS will help in other cases. He noted, finally, that by Monday the problem with the shortages of specific drugs in pharmacies has been solved.
… In the meantime, from Wednesday, January 12, the order of services of private doctors begins, as described in the Official Gazette, the order starts from the Regions of Western, Central and Eastern Macedonia and Thrace and concerns pulmonologists, pathologists, anesthesiologists and .
… A question of 57 deputies of the party to the Minister of Health was submitted to the Parliament, on the initiative of the Head of Health of SYRIZA, Andreas Xanthou, requesting prescription and free tests, molecular and antigenic. “The government must immediately create multiple points that will provide free molecular and rapid tests,” said the K.Y. in Alexandras Avenue the President of KINAL, Nikos Androulakis.
Πρω Former Prime Minister Antonis Samaras was diagnosed with coronavirus. He is fully vaccinated and has mild symptoms. The Metropolitan of Messinia, Chrysostomos, who is vaccinated with all three doses and is asymptomatic, is also positive for the coronavirus.
“I mean I want to punch the unvaccinated,” French President Emmanuel Macron told a news conference with Commission President Ursula von der Leyen at the Palais des Champs-Elysées. As Mr Macron put it, some of them “make their slogan of freedom, which becomes irresponsible.”
In your sports briefing: Normally the championship in the first division of football continues, after the extraordinary Board of the Super League.
After the Novak Djokovic, who is still locked in the Melbourne hotel due to a visa that does not meet the entry criteria in Australia, the visa of the Czech Tennis player Renata Vorasova, No. 81 in the world, which is also kept in the “Park Hotel”, was canceled. . , in Melbourne. Borasova reportedly entered Australia last month with the exception of a vaccine given by the Australian Open host Tennis Australia, who had recently contracted and recovered from Covid-19.
. In the meantime, the Serbian tennis player made two new posts in the last hour. “Thank you to everyone around the world for your continued support. “I can feel and appreciate her,” he wrote in a post. Earlier she had uploaded a photo with the birth of Jesus Christ and wished a Merry Christmas to the Orthodox Christians, who are celebrating today in his homeland.
The Municipality of Athens, through Athens 9.84 and the Athens Culture Net, invites 10 well-known actors to 10 readings, through 10 bookstores for 10 radio broadcasts! Today, Tassos Iordanidis, at 6:00 pm, reads excerpts from “The Christmas of Hercule Poirot” by Agatha Christie, at the “Atrapos” bookstore.
Weather: Clouds temporarily increased with local rains, tomorrow, in Attica. The temperature will range from 10 to 16 degrees Celsius – 17 degrees, at this time, in Technopolis, here in Gazi.