«After 2 years we are in another phase of pandemic management. We are now entering the phase of coexistence with the virus. The measures exist, without entering into a mandatory process, because we have a different picture»Noted o Minister of Health, Thanos Plevris, at the beginning of the information on the course of the pandemic.
He added that “we do not believe in the policy of zero covid, as in China» pointing out that pandemic markers allow us to go into a context of coexistence with the coronavirus. “The framework is dynamic, we will see the course of the pandemic and we will adapt accordingly,” he said.
He also referred to all the measures taken since the beginning of the pandemic, acknowledging that they were often particularly harsh, noting that they aimed to reduce losses from the pandemic.
As Mr. Plevris said, in the beginning we had an NSS, which had come out of a tenth crisis, there was no vaccine, treatments and know-how. However, now the National Health System has been strengthened and there is also know-how and medicines.
«We will continue to strengthen it and the forthcoming bills aim to build a more human-centered NSS with a focus on the citizen and to support with resources of 1.5 billion euros from the Recovery Fund“, He pointed out.
At the same time, he stated that now, we have a different strain of the virus, which has a high transmissibility but low morbidity and stressed the importance of vaccination, in which Greece moves to the European average in the general population.
«Rumors that we would pipe people into a parking lot were not confirmed“, He underlined emphasizing that our country was in a better position than other European countries.
The Minister of Health stressed that the epidemiological picture justifies the new pandemic management frameworkas “cases, single and ICU beds are reduced and economic life is back».
It is noted that the general secretary of Public Health, Irini Agapidaki, the president of EODY, Theoklis Zaoutis, as well as the members of the Committee of Experts, professor of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Vana Papaevangikos, and Epikidos Epikidos, also participated in the briefing.
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