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Any chance fell into the lion’s den slight relaxation for the holidays, as well as the contagion of the new coronavirus mutation Has meant global alarm. With the first step, the extension of the quarantine to 10 days for visitors to Britain, with new measures, the government personnel will return -probably in the next few hours-, adjusting the control frameworks to the maximum, at least until the process of mass vaccinations.
The new headache, hearing the name mutation, has seriously worried scientists, who advocate more conservative solutions to “Presence” of the new virus strain and in GREECE. With conditions “raging” at pan-European level due to the situation in Britain, the professor, Charalambos Gogos He seemed anxious about the possibility of overcrowding, setting “standards” for New Years Eve. “When we want to have New Year’s Eve, this family reunion that we will do in our house, we have to make sure that these people are well and have not been exposed. When we come back all week, we don’t know what we’re exposed to. On New Year’s Eve we have to be people from the same family, who we know and who were healthy in the pastThe professor said, without hiding his concerns about the next day of expiration of the existing measures.
With the new year the decisions
“The state is making an effort to be ready to open schools on January 8. They are ready to open, but they will open if conditions are right. It seems conditions are forming, dispersion has lessened, I hope this week Let’s have good news to go to schools ”. Mr. Gogos highlighted yesterday and clarified that “The committee analyzes all the data and makes a suggestion to the state. This is how it will be now. The focus is still a little behind. We will start with simpler things and slowly, timidly – we will go to the rest, if there is no increase in cases.”
The professor of Epidemiology also spoke of a New Year’s Eve different from the others. Athena linou, proposing that New Year’s Eve be celebrated in a close family circle. Any meeting should be done in accordance with Ms. Linou with a small number and with the same circle of people and no alternationsas there is a risk of the virus spreading and causing a new outbreak.
On the other hand, the extension of the confinement until January 20 was suggested yesterday by the professor of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Demosthenes Sarigiannis, for fear of a reappearance of the virus, if normalcy returns earlier. In this sense, schools should remain closed, despite the intention to restart them on January 8, as already announced.
At the same time, the intention in the multifactorial equation of the pandemic of the variable “mutation” raises the level of vigilance in the field of government. If things go wrong at Christmas, we will have stricter measures on New Year’s Eve, the government spokesman warned yesterday. Stelios Petsas, pointing out that “Meetings and gatherings indoors can be celebrations for the virus and not for us. There is no room for experimentation. Being with the same people, at most with one more family during the holidays.”
The sweeping checks, as well as the introduction of new measures within the day, were announced yesterday by the Minister of Citizen Protection, Michalis Chrysochoidis. He himself revealed that“We are looking at other areas very carefully,” like Magnesia, due to the high epidemiological burden, in parallel with the total mobilization of ELAS. In the next few days, measures will be specified that will minimize travel and the possibility of abuse ”. announced the Minister of Civil Protection and warned that “There will be strict controls to comply with the decisions that will eventually be made.”
New Years Eve and Easter
Successive government messages, loaded with warnings, bring the “Easter solution” closer to Christmas, since the scenarios that are being considered in the last hours include the implementation of similar measures with the three days of the Resurrection, at which time a driving ban was imposed from 9 pm on Holy Saturday to midnight on Easter Monday, ruling out any possibility of escape for aspiring hikers.
After all, exhaustion of appropriate measures to prevent further spread of the virus is almost a one-way street for the government, as the goal of herd immunity will not be reached before next spring. In fact, when yesterday presenting the national vaccination roadmap, both the president of the Committee, Maria Theodoridou, and the secretary general of Primary Health, Marios Themistocleous He set the calendar, but also the priorities, since the first doses of the vaccine arrive in Greece in four days. The groups to be vaccinated in turn will be preceded by all health workers, followed by the elderly who are housed in structures, such as nursing homes or closed structures for the chronically ill, followed by citizens over 85 years of age.
Vaccination diary
In the final stretch are the preparations for arrival of the vaccine in Greece, as the supply chain for disposal is completed. Vaccine doses will be stored in five areas with deep-frozen refrigerators, while the entire route (storage – distribution – control) is carried out by the Ministry of National Defense.
With this data, the first doses of the vaccine are expected in Greece on December 26, as this is the company’s first batch of 9,750 doses. Pfizer-BioΝTech.
TO December 27 Vaccinations start in Attica, to be carried out: At Evangelismos Hospital, Sotiria Hospital, Attica Hospital, Thriasio and Voula Asclepieion.
The next day, December 28th, will be distributed to the Reference Hospitals, the University of Larissa, AHEPA, the University of Ioannina and Patras, so that the vaccinations of the medical personnel of these hospitals begin on December 29.
Until December 30 The 83,850-dose batch of Pfizer vaccine will arrive in the country. In addition, 429,000 installments are expected to be delivered by the end of January and another 333,450 installments by the end of February.
Finally, at the end of March, only Pfizer-BioNTech will have received 1,265,550 quotas.
Curtain for the cabinet
While the arrival of 2021 is indelibly marked, in fact, by the arrival of vaccines, a few hours before the new year, the cabinet meets today at 11 a.m. – finally in 2020 – under the presidency of Prime Minister Kyriakos. Mitsotakis, via videoconference. Its problems, however, include critical reforms to address the pandemic, such as the recommendation of the Minister of State, George Gerapetritis for the National Bioethics and Technoethics Committee, but also the suggestion of the Minister of Health, Vassilis Kikilias for the establishment of a Government Committee for the Coordination and Management of Vaccination against Coronavirus.
THE meeting agenda of the Council of Ministers:
· Presentation of the Minister of Education and Religions Niki Kerameos legislative initiatives for the university admissions system
· Presentation by the Minister of Education and Religions Niki Kerameos and the Minister of Citizen Protection Michalis Chrysochoidis, legislative initiatives to improve security and academic freedom in universities
· Presentation of the Minister of Culture and Sports Lina mendoni, bill for the transformation of special regional services (National Archaeological Museum, Byzantine and Christian Museum of Athens, Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, Museum of Byzantine Culture, Archaeological Museum of Heraklion) into legal entities of public law
Presentation of the Minister of State George Gerapetritis legislative initiatives: a) National Human Rights Commission, b) National Bioethics and Technoethics Commission and c) National Accessibility Authority
· Presentation by Minister of State George Gerapetritis on the evaluation of the legislative work of the Government and the implementation of the principles of good legislation
· Presentation by the Minister of State George Gerapetritis and the Deputy Minister to Prime Minister Akis Skercos, on the approval of the 2021 Unified Government Policy Plan
Recommendation of the Minister of Justice Tsiara Coast, for the preselection of judicial officials for the position of Vice President of the Court of Accounts
Suggestion from the Minister of Health Vassilis Kikilias establish a Government Coronavirus Vaccination Management and Coordination Committee
Presentation of the Minister of the Interior Taki Theodorikako, for the extension of validity of n. Law 33/2006 of the Council of Ministers on appointments and contracts in the public sector.
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