“We assume that by the end of the year there will be a procedure for updated vaccines” estimated the Minister of Health
The new wave of the coronavirus pandemic is on the decline, the Minister of Health, Thanos Pleuris, said while speaking to ERT, stressing that the possibility of taking any measures before September is not being considered.
Mr. Pleuris stated that the government is alert, but since there is no pressure on ICU beds, there are no suggestions for changes in the model being followed.
For updated vaccines emphasized that and Pfizer and the Modern they are moving towards completing the tests by summer. “We assume that towards the end of the year there will be an updated process vaccines” estimated the minister, making it known that our country’s orders were transferred for autumn delivery, so that we also have the updated mutations.
For weekly update he emphasized that we are entering the phase of coexistence with the corona virus, as the disease of the population is not transferred to serious hospitalizations. “So we want to move on to one recommendation model rather than obligation. In this context, the information has the characteristics that the information exists, is given weekly, evaluated weekly, but every day those in positions of responsibility and in EODY have the monitoring and automatically whenever necessary we can intervene” he added.
He expressed confidence that the National Health System will endure, but explained that in the fall we must be prepared. That is why the preparation of the NSS has already begun. In particular, all the conditions are created so that the private sector does not only have an auxiliary character, but enters the program from the beginning in order to have more beds.
Regarding staff recruitment, he emphasized that the process for the 4,000 nurses has been completed, while it is not in the government’s intentions to return the suspended health workers early.
He insists on Tsipras
Finally, regarding the presence of Alexis Tsipras at the Presidential Palace, he emphasized that the new phase of the pandemic provides for five days of quarantine and does not “break” with a negative test.
“These are the instructions of the EODY and if they don’t like it, it doesn’t mean that we will change them on a case-by-case basis. Therefore, these instructions were not followed.”
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