A decision by the Council of State is paving the way for doctors and nurses employed in the public health system who were put on furlough for refusing mandatory vaccination for Covid to return to work.
VACCINE
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has encouraged the public to get the flu vaccine, especially if there are people over 60 in their families.
Children aged from 6 months to 4 years old can now be inoculated against Covid after the Health Ministry on Thursday announced that it has received the shots developed by Pfizer for this age group.
Covid-19 vaccines produced by Pfizer for children aged 6 months to 4 years are expected to be available soon, Greece’s National Vaccination Committee said on Tuesday and advised parents to inoculate children of this age group with underlying conditions or that are immunocompromised against the virus.
Winter is coming with a more easily manageable coronavirus but also with a resurgence of influenza, according to scientists.
Vaccination against Covid-19 is associated with reduced mortality even among patients intubated for severe respiratory failure, according to a recent Greek study published in the international peer-reviewed medical journal JAMA Network Open, which examined cases of intubated patients in Greek university hospital ICUs in the fall of 2021.
Just two out of 10 people aged 60 years and older have had their second booster dose of the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine in Greece, according to Health Ministry data.
Greece on Monday began its autumn Covid-19 vaccination campaign, rolling out new bivalent boosters targeting the Omicron BA.4/BA.5 subvariants.
Greece will begin its autumn Covid-19 vaccination campaign on Monday, October 3, rolling out new bivalent boosters targeting the Omicron BA.4/BA.5 subvariants.
The abbot and five monks of a monastery on Mount Pelio, in central Greece, will face trial over charges of spreading fake news about the Covid-19 vaccines and the pandemic.
Greece’s National Vaccination Committee on Tuesday said it recommends the updated Covid-19 vaccines for people over 60 years of age and health professionals, among others.
The online platform to book vaccination appointments with the latest Covid-19 vaccines opened on Monday, with the first appointments available on Wednesday.
Greek health officials will hold a special press briefing on the new round of vaccinations against Covid-19 on Monday, the Health Ministry announced Wednesday.
The European Union’s drug regulator on Thursday backed two separate Covid-19 vaccine boosters updated to target the Omicron variant, ahead of an anticipated rise in infections this winter.
The new, Omicron-adapted vaccines, are expected to arrive in Greece in two phases as of October, Health Minister Thanos Plevris said on Thursday, in time for fall booster campaigns.
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has started a rolling review of a variant-adapted Covid-19 vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech, it said on Tuesday.
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