Greek health care workers protest against mandatory vaccines

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Health workers instrumentality portion successful a rally successful Athens, Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021. Workers astatine nationalist hospitals successful Greece were holding a five-hour enactment stoppage Thursday to protestation a authorities determination making vaccination against COVID-19 mandatory for each wellness attraction workers successful the nationalist and backstage sector. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

ATHENS – Workers astatine nationalist hospitals successful Greece were holding a five-hour enactment stoppage Thursday to protestation a authorities determination making vaccination against COVID-19 mandatory for each wellness attraction workers successful the nationalist and backstage sector.

About 300 infirmary workers rallied extracurricular the wellness ministry successful Athens to protestation the measure, which goes into effect connected Sept. 1. The authorities has made wide that nary hold volition beryllium granted.

Those moving successful the nationalist and backstage wellness attraction sector, and those moving successful attraction homes who haven't received astatine slightest 1 dose of the vaccine by that date, oregon who don’t person a certificate of caller recovery, volition beryllium suspended from work.

The nationalist infirmary workers’ national said that portion it supports the vaccines, it opposes making them mandatory.

“We volition not permission defenseless the wellness attraction and societal attraction workers who person a idiosyncratic close to vaccination,” the national said. “Patients are not astatine hazard of catching the coronavirus from wellness attraction workers. Hospitals are filling up again with patients suffering from the coronavirus which they caught successful the community.”

Greece has been seeing a dependable summation successful confirmed coronavirus cases and deaths, arsenic good arsenic hospitalizations and intubations, implicit the past respective weeks. ICU beds for COVID-19 patients are much than 69% full, portion regular COVID-19 wards are 45% full, wellness ministry figures show.

Health Minister Vassilis Kikilias said Tuesday that “significantly much than 90% of patients who are successful COVID ICUs are unvaccinated," without specifying whether immoderate of them had received conscionable 1 vaccine dose.

More than 11 cardinal vaccine doses person been administered, with 5.6 cardinal radical present afloat vaccinated successful this state of astir 11 cardinal people.

COVID-19 vaccines are freely disposable successful Greece to anyone implicit the property of 12. Vaccination is not mandatory but for those successful the wellness attraction sector, but connected Tuesday the authorities announced caller investigating requirements and restrictions connected entree to assorted venues for radical who are unvaccinated.

The measures, which volition beryllium successful effect from Sept. 13 until March 31, see mandatory play oregon twice-weekly investigating for unvaccinated nationalist and backstage assemblage workers, and indoor entree to venues specified arsenic restaurants, bars, cafes and amusement venues allowed lone for those with a certificate of vaccination oregon caller recovery.

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