During the week, Tuesday or Wednesday, the committee of experts will meet to recommend the opening of schools, but the basic scenario, the will and the initial position, is for schools to open on January 10, but with a possible update of the health protocol, said Health Minister Thanos Plevris, speaking on Sunday on SKAI television
«The protocol that was followed, had very positive results, from there on we will see the progress of the cases, but also the discussion that will be made to the experts, and will possibly update the protocol, especially more tests,» he said.
The scenarios of compulsory vaccination
Health Minister Thanos Pleyris referred to the two scenarios being considered for increasing vaccination coverage of the population against covid-19. The first, he said, is almost a done deal, the implicit compulsion that exists with regard to the validity of the vaccination certificate, logically we will extend it to the entire population. «In order to be counted as vaccinated, you have to have had the booster dose if the seven-month period has passed,» he explained. The second one under consideration, which has to do with compulsory vaccination, concerns population groups that are burdened by the system on the basis of age criteria (with the exception of health workers), but clarified that no decision has been taken «nor are we close to making a decision». He added that the compulsion had had an effect, of the 580,000 over 60 who had not made a first payment almost 200,000 have made an appointment or have made a first payment.
5,000 pills coming in the next few days
In the next few days, 5,000 pills are expected to arrive in our country from the MERCK company, said Mr.Plevris. With the company PFIZER, he added, we are in contact, so that when the pill receives approval from the EMA - expected by the end of January, until mid-February - we will be one of the first countries to receive it in early March. She stressed, however, that «the vaccine is what saves us.».
