Today, Thursday 30 June at 18:00, a briefing for accredited editors on the National Plan for vaccination coverage against COVID-19 will be held at the Greek Ministry of Health by the President of the National Vaccination Committee Maria Theodoridou and the Secretary General of Primary Health Care Mario Themistokleous.
The National Vaccination Committee considers thatfurther clarification should be provided on last week's recommendation regarding the possibility of giving a second booster dose of vaccine to people aged 39 to 59 years old.
This update follows last week's announcements on who and when to have the 4th dose of the coronavirus vaccine.
The Commission recommended under some pressure, perhaps from the deteriorating epidemiological picture, that the second booster dose of the coronavirus vaccine be given to people aged 30 to 59 years, without a complete proposal.
It is indicative that it was inadvertently clarified that for those wishing to be vaccinated, four months must have elapsed since the administration of the first booster dose. As well as that those who have become ill after the first booster dose will not receive the second.
It is likely that these clarifications and any others deemed necessary by the experts will be provided today as part of the announcement.
In the meantime, the increase in cases of coronavirus in the territory, allied to the hypermetastatic subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 and the relaxation in people's behaviour, particularly in terms of mask use, has led to a huge increase in cases.
Experts insist on the issue of individual responsibility recommending that vulnerable and elderly people use masks indoors and where there is confusion and that younger people protect older people by wearing a mask and carrying out tests when they are about to meet them. At this stage and based on the controlled picture of the hospitals the members of the Commission have not opened the discussion on the issue of any measures for the epidemic.
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