In the afternoon, the announcements will be made regarding the third installment, after the meeting of the National Vaccination Committee, the general secretary of Primary Health Care, Marios Themistokleous, told SKAI. Mr. Themistocleous stated that the third installment in four months is most likely to be opened for everyone.
“There are available appointments, we have the mechanism. When the platform opens. “Those who have been vaccinated by the end of August by mid-January will have been vaccinated, we have the mechanism, we will support it,” he said.
He announced that 30,000 first installment appointments were made yesterday, the 17 thousand new appointments for the first installment at the age of 60 and over, and a total of 45 thousand appointments have been closed since the announcement of the obligation.
“We will know in about 10 days if the vaccines cover the Omicron mutation,” said the Secretary General of Primary Health Care.
“Nobody is discussing a fourth dose at the moment, except for very specialized categories of minor exceptions, immunosuppressed, etc.,” he clarified.
“We have vaccinated 78% of the adult population. The 60 and over are more vulnerable, the vaccination is extremely important, we go to villages and squares “.
Certificates for vaccinated abroad
Marios Themistokleous also clarified that those who have been vaccinated abroad with two doses and want to do the third dose if they go to the KEP this afternoon and have been vaccinated in a third country with one of the four vaccines we use in our country (AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson) will pass the two installments in our system and the appointment for the souvenir will be scheduled here and only in case they do it here they will get a Greek and consequently a European certificate.
He added that for the remaining 5 vaccines that we do not use here (Sinopharm, Sputnik etc) from third countries we will start in the middle of next week. For people who have been vaccinated abroad in order not to fall into the obligation there will be a technical solution that will be developed in the next 10 to 15 days, he announced.
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