Wednesday
Deferred May Day to affect services, shops
Business will not be resuming quite as usual on Tuesday after the long Easter break, as the May Day holiday was deferred by a week in observance of Good Wednesday.
The measure will mostly affect state services, which will not be working today, but also banks and the Athens Stock Exchange.
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Changes to the timetables of Public Transport - See how they will move today
Special timetable will also apply on Tuesday and Wednesday of Easter
Athens transport services adjusted for long Easter weekend
Public transport services in Athens will be adjusted for the Greek Orthodox Easter long weekend, from Friday to Wednesday after Easter.
Services will end before 11 p.m. on Saturday, while the usual extension of Friday schedules to midnight will not be implemented on Friday.
Buses, trolleys
Severe Weather: Polar air mass & 10°C drop in temperature (video)
The first disturbance will be Wednesday into Thursday and the second Friday into Saturday
Nikki Haley is expected to withdraw from the Republican presidential race following her defeat on Super Tuesday
Sources cited by the Wall Street Journal suggest that she will refrain from making an endorsement on Wednesday
Lisa Kudrow shares touching tribute to Matthew Perry
In a post shared on Wednesday, the 60-year-old actress talked about her enduring friendship with the late “Friends” star
Holy Wednesday is the Day of Repentance, Forgiveness and Betrayal
Holy Wednesday in the Christian tradition is the Wednesday of Holy Week. In Orthodoxy, it is associated with the evangelical Parable of the Two Debtors, in which Jesus Christ points to the forgiveness of sinners as more important than that of the righteous.
Heavy rains imminent, as weather forecast to worsen in Greece
The deterioration will start on Wednesday
On Ash Wednesday Pope Starts Lent, Celebrations Scaled down over Pandemic
Pope Francis led the world's 1.3 billion Roman Catholics into Lent on Ash Wednesday, as they scaled back a centuries-old ritual to help stem the spread of the coronavirus.
Francis, who normally marks the start of the penitential season with an outdoor procession between two ancient churches in Rome, instead said a Mass for about 120 people in St. Peter's Basilica.
Intubations jump to 622 as daily death toll comes to 100
The number of Covid-19 patients on ventilators jumped to 622 on Thursday from 613 on Wednesday and 596 on Tuesday, as pressure on the Greek health system is not showing any sign of easing.