GREECE VACCINE ROLLOUT

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National Committee on Vaccination considering fourth vax dose

Over the next months a fourth jab for the rest of the population will be reviewed if the appearance of a new variant warrants it.

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Government to allow third vaccine dose three months after second

Themistokleous said that over 80 percent of people age 60 and over have been vaccinated, but the government has essentially made it mandatory for this age group, imposing a 100-euro monthly fine.

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Editorial Ta Nea: Urgency

Compulsory vaccination for citizens who are age 60 and over is both necessary and urgent. The numbers and all the data leave no time or space for further experimentation and toleration.

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Editorial To Vima: The duty of baby boomers

Sixty-Somethings who refuse the vaccine belong to the generation of the baby boomers – those born between 1946 and 1964 - and lived a life of nearly uninterrupted peace and almost continual prosperity.

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Editorial Ta Nea: The only way

Recommendations will not suffice. One must examine restrictive measures targeting mainly the unvaccinated, as they are five times more likely to fall ill and ten times more likely to die than those who are vaccinated.

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Kikilias: Compulsory vaccination of healthcare workers, vaccination even outside of churches

Just days ago, the government had announced that healthcare workers who remained unvaccinated would be suspended from work without pay, a move that could have raised tensions in the health system at a critical juncture.

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Health Ministry poised to open appointments platform for COVID-19 vax booster shot for high-risk groups in September

The third dose will be made available to patients who have undergone organ transplants, who have had bone marrow transplants, who are cancer patients who have had chemotherapy, and patients with kidney disease.

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Government poised to announce mandatory vaccination of target groups

The objective of legally mandated vaccination is to protect the people that come into contact with individuals in particular professional target groups, which the government hopes to serve as an example.

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Editorial To Vima: The campaign for salvation

As time goes by, almost certainly super-spreading Delta variant loci emerge, threatening to demolish everything on their path, including the basic wall of immunity that citizens have built with great effort.

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Editorial Ta Nea: Clarity

Citizens stepped forward to be vaccinated, and still are doing so, in a rollout that by all accounts is organised in an excellent manner. Lingering doubts jeopardise the collective effort to build a wall of immunity.

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Mitsotakis suggests state cannot impede restaurateurs from imposing COVID-19 vax requirement

The further laxening of restrictive public health measures includes lifting the ban on playing music at restaurants, cafeterias, and bars and delaying the 12:30 am curfew until 1:30 am.

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Citizens aged 30-39 can now make appointments for all four available COVID-19 vaccines

Until now, only the AstraZeneca vaccine was made available to this age group as reports of thrombosis linked to it made older citizens reluctant to get it, despite the assurances of experts.

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Editorial To Vima: Vaccines save lives

For better or for worse, all other tools for checking the epidemic – especially protracted restrictions on movement and the closure of businesses – have brought fatigue to citizens and societies.