From Friday to the end of August, all indoor public places in Greece, entertainment centers and bars, cinemas and theaters will work exclusively for customers vaccinated against COVID-19, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced tonight, Sky TV reported. The restaurants will work with an increased but predetermined number of visitors. The corresponding digital application will start working on Friday, which will easily establish whether the visitor has been vaccinated or not.
During the summer, all entertainment venues, whether indoor or outdoor, will only work with seated customers and will not be allowed standing. However, restaurants will be allowed to set more tables than before.
Mitsotakis said this is a practice already followed by countries such as Denmark, Germany, Austria and Luxembourg. Vaccination of employees working in care centers for the elderly becomes mandatory.
“Those who do not do so will be fired after August 16. Because those who are supposed to protect those who are most at risk cannot be the same likely bearers of that risk,” the Greek prime minister said.
From September 1, compulsory vaccination will also be in force for medical staff in the public and private sectors. The government’s decision provides for the possibility and incentives for vaccinating servicemen.
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Mitsotakis stressed that there are “two shadows” that hinder the rapid and final outcome of the pandemic – the emergence of the aggressive Delta mutation and the share of citizens who are still hesitant to be vaccinated. The Greek prime minister sent the message that the country would not be closed again because of the position of certain people, because the state would provide freedom of the majority and protection for all, “because it is not Greece that is at risk, but the unvaccinated Greeks.”
Mitsotakis categorically ruled out the possibility of general bans. He called on those who are hesitant to get vaccinated, to listen to young people who use their Freedom Pass, the Church that isolates individual voices against others, professionals who want activities to return to normal and the millions of women and men who want to to live in health and freedom.
Meanwhile, Marios Themistocleus, the chief secretary for primary care at the Greek Ministry of Health, announced that the vaccination of people between the ages of 15 and 17 with the Pfizer vaccine would begin on Thursday. Vaccination time for minors can be reserved by either parent. Children will be admitted to vaccination centers accompanied by a parent or guardian.
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