With the European certificate (which is valid for 9 months), and without tests, the entry to Greece will be possible from Monday, February 7, as stated by Health Minister Thanos Plevris.
"From Monday, February 7, entry to the country for those with an active European certificate will be without a mandatory test," the Health Minister told ERT. Plevris, however, clarified that there is a possibility of a government extension of the suspension.
"For those health workers who have not been vaccinated, the contract suspension expires on March 31. On March 31, the government will either extend that deadline or say that vaccination is a prerequisite for offering services in the NHS. No decision has been made yet, but my recommendation is that anyone who is not vaccinated cannot be in the NHS," he told ANT1.
The Health Minister made it clear, however, that "we are not thinking of extending the suspension to those who have not done the booster dose of the vaccine."
For the contracted auxiliary health workers who have joined the National Health System, Mr. Plevris said that "for the 12,000 auxiliaries, whose contracts expire on March 31, we will make arrangements to extend their contracts until about the end of the year, while at the same time there will be a bonus for them because of the experience they have gained and at the same time a notice is being issued for 4,000 positions in the National Health Service."
Thanos Plevris added that "the orders we are placing for both drugs and vaccines are for the whole of 2022. The EU forecast is that we are also in a de-escalation when it comes to cases and hard indicators, there should also be a monitoring of the situation in the autumn. So if there is an extension in the suspension (of the unvaccinated health workers' contract) it will be for a long time, probably until the end of the year, so it will be until then and the extension of the contracts of the auxiliary health workers."
Regarding the anti-coronavirus pills, the Health Minister said that "since the first batch of monoclonal antibodies was completed, we have Merck pills for the first time and now we have home delivery of the pills approved by the doctors and the Commission. Towards the end of the month or early March we will have the first batches of the Pfizer pills as well and there will be a supply of pills."
He pointed out, however, that "the vaccine remains our first defence, the pill is an adjuvant. For an unvaccinated person, even if he takes the pill, the risk to his life remains high.
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