“There will be no more lockdown in the country and those who have been vaccinated will not be subject to significant restrictions again,” said government spokesman Giannis Oikonomou, while briefing political editors on the possibility of imposing new restrictive measures to address the pandemic.
The government spokesman stressed that “the outbreak of the pandemic concerns, as everyone observes, the entire northern hemisphere and not only Greece. In this environment of dynamic escalation of cases, our country continues to try to deal with the pandemic with the economy, education, society fully operational without having yet exhausted all the margins of reaction and defense to the coronavirus.
The basic, safest, most effective way to reduce cases and the consequences of the disease is, as all competent scientists have concluded, vaccination. Our government, guided by health safety but also by the public interest, has come up with specific strategic choices:
A number of measures are being implemented in consultation with experts and an extensive plan to monitor compliance with the measures is under way.
At the same time, with special emphasis, the effort to expand the vaccination coverage of the population and the acceleration of the rhythms for the third, the so-called booster dose, continues, “Mr. Oikonomou stressed. “They are published both in Greece and abroad. From the daily data we receive from the hospitals and from the ICU, it appears that about 9 out of 10 patients in the intensive care units are our fellow citizens who are not vaccinated”, the government spokesman noted.
He added that “at the same time, the government continues to strengthen the NSS, especially in the regions where there is a very high and very high pressure.
In the context of cooperation with the private sector, the country is treated, as has happened in other phases of exacerbation of the pandemic in the past as a health region. In this context, they have been made available to the NSS until today and this situation is dynamic, continues and strengthens, 200 beds in Thessaloniki from the private sector and 206 beds in Thessaly for covid incidents and 150 beds in Thessaloniki and another 150 in Larissa for other incidents.
The ICUs of the private sector are also at the disposal of the NSS. In Attica there is a corresponding arrangement for activating the distribution of private sector beds in the NSS if the need arises, while until the end of the week the communication with the medical associations continues in order to strengthen the NSS with private doctors. However, I want to clarify that if the needs are not met, at the beginning of next week, the request for the services of private doctors for the NSS will be activated “.
“Commission forecasts show that our country will have the lowest inflation in the eurozone”
“The autumn forecasts of the European Commission for 2021, 2022 and 2023 for the countries of the euro area and the EU were published recently. For our country, the European Commission forecasts growth rates for 2021, 7.1% which is the second largest “Growth rate in the eurozone, averaging 5% and significantly higher than its summer forecast,” said the government spokesman.
“For 2022, the growth rate of the Greek economy is projected to be 5.1% significantly higher than the average which is at 4.3% and for 2023 a growth rate of 3.6% is also forecast, also increased by the European average which will be at 2 , 4% for the eurozone “.
As he pointed out: “At the same time, the forecasts show that our country will have the lowest inflation in the eurozone while the de-escalation of unemployment will continue. “These forecasts confirm the dynamic recovery of the Greek economy, justify our reform policy, confirm once again that Greece is changing level, with a policy that is yielding results and that forms a solid basis for prosperity and prosperity for all Greeks.”
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