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More cases per 100,000 inhabitants have been observed in the last week in the prefectures of Kilkis, Xanthi, Pieria, Drama, Thessaloniki, Kozani, Rodopi, Grevena, Pella and Larissa, and the Expert Committee is currently meeting specifically for Kozani and West, among others. Health Minister Vassilis Kikilias at the information session of the Ministry of Health on the coronavirus.
Noting “the great pressure that Europe is receiving and the measures that several countries are taking to curb the coronavirus”, Mr. Kikilias stressed that “in the face of the Christmas holidays we must be very careful.” “We want to defend the effort of all these weeks,” he said, adding that “if and when epidemiological data deteriorates, all measures will be reevaluated according to the epidemiological indicators and data that will emerge.”
“I would like to warmly ask our fellow citizens, those who especially in overcrowded areas do not comply with the advice of experts and do not help so that we can responsibly deal with the spread of the coronavirus and overload the national health system, to think very carefully what “This can lead to the epidemiological situation of the country and therefore depending on what measures should be added to the relevant areas,” said the Minister of Health.
“The opposite of the difficulties that we have experienced all these months,” said Mr Kikilias, is “the common European supply of vaccines.” “You will remember that there was much talk about whether we will have vaccines and when Europe will have vaccines, when these vaccines will arrive in our country,” recalled the minister, emphasizing once again that the vaccine “will be distributed to everyone.” Member States on the same dates so that this huge health operation to vaccinate our fellow citizens can begin ”.
“The word Eleftheria, the code Eleftheria says it all,” said V. Kikilias, referring to the name of the vaccination company. “Because of our psychology, because of the way we feel that we want to recover our life, because of the effort that is made so that we can return to a partial normality and this is done with transparency, with clarity of the data with timely and valid information. “With the scientific analysis of what has to do with vaccines and vaccination to convince all our fellow citizens of the importance of this effort.”
He pointed out that this is not one vaccine, but many, several of which are in the pre-purchase process by the European Commission. Two more vaccines will soon be on the way to licensing. The installments are one after the other, according to the pre-purchase contracts.
“First, we will vaccinate our health workers. We will honor the fighters at the forefront of this effort.” Then we will vaccinate vulnerable groups, “Kikilias repeated.
The minister also pointed out that the registration of health workers and employees in hospitals who want to be vaccinated is beginning.
“As of tomorrow morning, the Ministry of Health from 09:00 to 16:00 will communicate consecutively by teleconference with all the hospitals and health centers in the country,” continued Vassilis Kikilias, announcing the voluntary consent of the health authorities for his vaccination . “The registration of health workers who want to be vaccinated begins. “When we talk about health professionals, we are talking about all staff, doctors, nurses, cleaners,” clarified Mr. Kikilias.
“My call to them has to do first of all with their own protection through vaccination and also with the safety of patients in hospital to reduce the possibility of hospital care,” he continued.
Source: skai.gr
