The president specified that the money collected from the fines will be part of a special fund that will finance public hospitals and it will be used to improve health infrastructures. “It is not a punishment, but a price of health,” defended Mitsotakis and warned that it is needed to save the lives of Greeks over 60 years of age amid the outbreak of the new variant of the coronavirus, Ómicron.
While, the Greek opposition criticized Mitsotakis’s decision on compulsory vaccination and administrative fine. According to them, the prime minister shifts responsibility for the catastrophe onto citizens in the health sector.
Mitsotakis, for his part, called the current situation a “pandemic of the unvaccinated”, since about 520,000 older people refused to be vaccinated in the country. “The new Omicron variant worries us and asks us to be attentive, because remember that the coronavirus can constantly surprise us while finding ways to survive, especially among the unvaccinated, “said the politician.
Ahead of the Christmas holidays, the Prime Minister announced another anticovid measure approved by the authorities: Between December 6 and 12, the Government will present the free Covid-19 tests to all adults to identify possible carriers of the virus without symptoms by December 24. The measure will be repeated after the party, between January 3 and 7, 2022. Despite the fact that at the moment there have been no cases of the new Omicron variant, the Minister of Health, Thanos Plevris, will announce new measures tomorrow, although a new confinement is ruled out.
According to official data collected by the Kathimerini newspaper, 6,677 new cases were registered in the last 24 hours and 600 patients admitted to intensive care units (ICU). Since the pandemic began, Greece has recorded 931,000 infections and 18,000 deaths from the disease.
Source From: Ambito
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