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The vaccination program against the coronavirus in the country advances, accelerating the start date for the general population on January 16 for citizens over 85 years of age.
The Secretary General of Primary Health Care, Marios Themistokleous, highlighted in the information from the Ministry of Health that Greece has secured 26,090,000 doses, corresponding to the vaccination of 15,450,000 citizens.
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Today, until 5:00 p.m., 4,773 vaccines have been administered and in total, since December 27, 49,661 vaccines have been given, that is, 0.46% of the population has been vaccinated.
The vaccination of health personnel in private hospitals will begin this week, and in the coming days the vaccination of private self-employed doctors, dentists and pharmacists will begin. The vaccines are expected to be delivered to all parts of the country in mid-February.
Vaccination appointment platform has been opened
An important part of the advancement of vaccines is the current opening of the dating platform for more than 85 years, highlighted the president of the National Vaccination Committee, Maria Theodoridou.
The Minister of Digital Government, Kyriakos Pierrakakis, explained all the ways in which citizens can request an appointment to be vaccinated.
The first group to be vaccinated after the sanitary and closed structures are people over 85 years of age. Ms. Theodoridou explained that age is an increased risk factor and that is why prioritization was made, as is done in all vaccination programs in other countries of the world.
The epidemiological picture of the coronavirus in the country
According to EODY, Greece recorded the last 24 hours 444 new cases of coronavirus, while 39 more people lost their lives. The number of intubated patients decreased slightly since Sunday, with 350 Covid ICU patients across the country.
Of all the new cases 180 are in Attica and 56 in Thessaloniki. It is worth noting that most of the new infections in Attica are in the central sector of Athens (56).
At the same time in stricter lockdown regime The Viotia regional unit is scheduled for Tuesday morning. Taking into account the epidemiological data that have emerged in the Boeotia Regional Unit of the Central Greece Region, by order of the Deputy Minister of Civil Protection and Crisis Management Nikos Hardalias, a ban on circulation outside the city is imposed, among other things. Region and a universal ban from 6:00 p.m. Morning. The new measures will remain in effect until next Monday, January 18 at 6:00 in the morning.
EU vaccine negotiations
At the same time, the EU is in negotiations with companies producing vaccines against the coronavirus and each country receives the amount of vaccines according to its population.
As it became known today, following clarifications from Mr. Themistocleous, in Greece it corresponds to 2.36% of the quantities. Each country had and has the right not to proceed with the provision of the corresponding quotas. Greece has so far proceeded with all the agreements and has obtained all the vaccines that correspond to it.
Vaccination schedule
At the end of January our country will receive from Pfizer-BioNTech 427,050 installments, at the end of February 362,700 installments and in March you will receive another 558,675 installments, a total of 1,348,425 installments. This number is slightly higher than previous announcements. In these quantities you must add a case 1.180,930 installments of Pfizer’s additional agreement with the European Commission.
Delivery is expected after approval of Moderna vaccine 20,000 doses in January, 115,000 doses in February and 105,000 doses in March. Moderna’s total deliveries for the first quarter are 240,000 installments.
In addition, these deliveries are expected to be added to the AstraZeneca vaccine, if it is approved by Coreper. Thus, the first delivery will take place in February and will have finished 400,000 doses, with an increase in deliveries in the coming months.
Finally, as it became known, the approval of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine is expected earlier, which is unique and much easier to administer.
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