New Covid Wave Hits Greece, Israel Just as Summer Travel Heats Up
On the popular island of Santorini, one-third of tests are reportedly coming back positive for coronavirus, while in nearby Mykonos the number climbs to 51 percent.

A resurgence of coronavirus in Greece and its Mediterranean neighbor Israel have taken both countries by surprise and threaten to put a damper on a much-anticipated return to normalcy just as the summer tourist season begins in earnest. Greece registered more than 10,000 positive cases a day in the three 24-periods leading up to Friday and Israel’s “coronavirus czar,” Salman Zarka, said that hospitals across the country were reopening their designated coronavirus wards due to the spike in Covid-19 cases.
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