Residents from the village of Vlochos, one of the dozens in central Greece that were submerged during two major rainstorms last September, are asking municipal authorities to find new space for the construction of houses in order to relocate.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis met on Tuesday with the newly elected regional governor of Thessaly, Dimitris Kouretas, to discuss the issues concerning the region.
Nineteen new cases of leptospirosis have been confirmed in the areas affected by last month’s flooding in Thessaly, nine of them in the last 24 hours.
A total of 10,495 calls due to Storm Elias were received by the Fire Brigade’s operations center in Thessaly, central Greece, from Tuesday morning until 6 p.m. on Thursday.
A new wave of bad weather is expected from Monday until at least Thursday, reported the National Observatory of Athens meteo.gr. An interministerial meeting began on Sunday at 1 p.m. at the Ministry of Climate Crisis and Civil Protection to discuss precautionary measures.
The demands of Karditsa and Larissa farmers.
