M. Themistocleous: Vaccinations will give a good immunity rate until Easter

The assessment that we will achieve a very high level of immunity by Easter because of the vaccinations, said during the briefing at the Ministry of Health, the Secretary General for Primary Health Care, Marios Themistokleous.

Greece ranks fourth among other European countries, and 1,420,000 appointments have been scheduled so far. There are 720,000 appointments scheduled for March, and we are expected to exceed 1.5 million vaccinations, noted the Secretary General of Primary Health Care, adding that this number will increase significantly in April, as The number of deliveries will also increase.

When asked about the 80–84 age group, he said that at least 100,000 have received one dose and there are another 110,000 appointments, a percentage that exceeds 50% of the total population in this age group.

In response to another question about when the ministry would be able to administer vaccinations at home to people who have great difficulty traveling to vaccination centers, he replied that «With a more user-friendly vaccine, we hope that we will soon be able to implement a home vaccination program as well.». He also he left open the possibility that people with serious illnesses on the supplementary list—from which only uniformed personnel are currently being vaccinated—might also be vaccinated, so that doses are not wasted.

Mr. Themistokleous said that it is a difficult process, not only for Greece but also for other countries, and it is something that «we are trying to organize so that we can vaccinate others besides law enforcement officers.» As for the appointments that were missed due to bad weather, he said that they have already begun to be rescheduled, as 4,000 people who missed their appointments due to bad weather were vaccinated yesterday, Sunday.

"So far," he emphasized, "we have administered more than 720,000 vaccine doses, and 30,000 doses were administered on Monday.".

Mr. Themistokleous also mentioned the timeline for receiving the vaccines, saying that on Monday we received a shipment from the company Pfizer 112,000 doses.