Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced on Friday that the first Covid-19 vaccines will arrive in the country on December 26 and that vaccinations will begin the following day.
“We believe that the first vaccines will be in Greece on December 26 and from the following day, December 27, we will be able to have the first vaccinations in five referral hospitals in Athens and immediately after in Thessaloniki,” Mitsotakis said during a meeting with health and civil protection officials.
Speaking about the vaccination process he said that there will be a strict prioritization regarding who get the shot first.
“Employees in the National Health System will take precedence and also the residents of nursing homes. Citizens over 65 will follow. We estimate that a total of about 2.4 million of our fellow citizens are included in this age category,” Mitsotakis said.
“We should know that only when we are approaching a 70 percent vaccination rate of the entire Greek population will we be able to speak with confidence of leaving the pandemic behind us,” Mitsotakis stated, explaining that “the pandemic will obviously not end with the beginning of the vaccination process.”
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