“Our goal is to scrap the €100 fine for unvaccinated people over 60,” said the Minister of Health, Thanos Plevris, while he added that the state would re-examine the possibility of re-hiring healthcare staff who had been laid off for refusing to get vaccinated.
He stated during an interview on TV on Friday that “we are approaching a solution on the issue with the fines for the unvaccinated who were subsequently vaccinated. There are procedural issues to be resolved. To those 300,000 citizens, who were vaccinated and had paid the fine, this will be deleted and the money will be returned to them. There will be announcements within the next week.”
Thanos Pleuris also said that “vaccination of people over 60 years old in Greece is 80%” and that “there is interest in updated vaccines”, noting that “what Mr. Tsiodras (Greece’s head immunologist) also said is that worldwide there has been an underestimation of the pandemic”.
“With a corresponding number of cases, the pressure in the ICUs is much milder, there are a few dozen intubated yesterday when in similar cases in the past we had over 400 intubated”, said the Minister.
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