Irini Agapidaki, Deputy Minister of Health presented in Larissa, following the statements of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, at the Coordination Center for Operations in the Region of Thessaly, the operational plan prepared by the ministry for the prevention and response to threats to Public Health, and which was presented in the morning at the Coordination Center for Public Health and is based on four axes :

In control of drinking water in all areas, at critical points of interest, to ensure that when water is given it is safe for citizens and advised citizens to use only bottled water.

The second axis concerns dead animals and stated that relevant instructions have been posted by the Ministry of Health, highlighting that stagnant water is potentially polluting and there is an increased number and area of ​​dead animals. Guidelines have been issued, he said, for the collection and cremation/sanitary burial of the dead animals to the concerned deputy governors and officials of the District so that the population is immediately protected.

The third axis concerns the epidemiological surveillance of infectious diseases such as gastroenteritis.

And the fourth axis the entomological surveillance with greater intensity as the region gives cases of West Nile underlining that the cases are expected to become more intense after a week.

The Minister of Social Cohesion Sofia Zaharaki he said that “all our structures in Thessaly at the Social Welfare Center did not face any issues. We have been hosting families in Volos since the day before yesterday with the aim of extending the hospitality for a month and of course we are at the disposal of the citizens for anything that arises. Families with disabled people who needed it, were transferred to Ampelonas. The minimum guaranteed income as well as the housing allowance, as Mr. Triandopoulos said, are extended for three months. For example, any beneficiary who has an approval decision that expires in September is extended for three months and whoever has an approval decision that expires in October is extended for two months,” said the minister.