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Following the Greek government’s strategy to get the population vaccinated, some of the unvaccinated medical and health personnel have been suspended from their work.
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Some 7,000 people demonstrated on Sunday in Syntagma Square in central Athens against the mandatory vaccination of health workers that takes effect on Wednesday.
“We are not against vaccines, but against fascism” and “Long live democracy!” Was read on the banners of the protesters, who also carried Greek flags.
“It is incredible that I am suspended from work because I refuse to be vaccinated, when for months I have been helping to contain the epidemic, working in very difficult conditions,” said Christos Bakakios, an ambulance driver.
For Lina, a nurse who requested anonymity, “the Greek health system will collapse if health personnel who refuse to be vaccinated are put into partial unemployment.” “Hospitals are already overloaded, it wouldn’t make sense,” he said.
The Greek government decided to take measures to encourage the population to get vaccinated against the spread of the delta variant of the coronavirus. 99% of intubated patients in hospitals are not vaccinated.
Since August 16, employees of nursing homes are required to be vaccinated.
More than 5.7 million of the 10.7 million inhabitants of Greece are fully vaccinated. But there is concern about the spread of the delta variant in the country.
More than 13,600 people have died from the coronavirus in Greece. (I)
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