‘Holidays safe’ code for government

By Dimitris Gatsios

In the shadow of the parliamentary controversy with the president of SYRIZA for the management of the pandemic and the measure of obligation for the age group of 60 and over, the prime minister is expected this morning to send new messages about the need for further impetus to vaccinations.

Kyriakos Mitsotakis receives at the Maximos Palace the Regional Director for Europe of the World Health Organization, Hans Kluge, and, according to information, the presence of the Belgian doctor and public health expert, will be another opportunity to highlight the multiple importance of the greatest… weapon against the pandemic virus.

At the same time, the government άζουν reads with satisfaction the data that emerge from the data of “Eleftheria”, two twenty-four hours after Mitsotakis’ announcements about our over 60 fellow citizens. “Before we announced the measure, the daily rate of new appointments for those over the age of 60 was about 2,000 appointments a day. Since we announced the measure, almost 20,000 appointments have been made. Almost ten times more. Thank you to all our fellow citizens, even if they may feel some resentment within us for this choice of ours, they are doing the right thing. “a move that comes to frame a policy with continuity and result”, stressed Mr. Mitsotakis, with the focus now focusing on the “code” safe festive period “.

With the Prime Minister reiterating, in the clearest and most unequivocal way, that the country is not going to enter a new lockdown, the open economy and society demand the implementation of a comprehensive plan, which is based on the controls for the observance of the measures, but and in mass tests of vaccinated and unvaccinated. In this direction, after all, is the supplementary measure on self tests, which extends in two time intervals. From December 6 to 12, a free self-test will be available to every adult, vaccinated or not, to identify possible asymptomatic carriers of the virus before Christmas, while the exact same exercise will be repeated from January 3 to 7. .

As long as the government awaits the final data on the characteristics of the new “Omicron” executive of Covid-19, the plan has in the first line not only the increase of vaccines in the community, but also other interventions. The Committee of Experts, which met yesterday, started the discussion on the formulation of the strategy for safe holidays. According to information, it is suggested that the Christmas theme parks operate only for vaccinated people, while those who work in them are also vaccinated. At the same time, the disease certificates are placed under the… microscope, with the Commission requesting their issuance, after a positive molecular test.