The National Vaccinations Committee is expected to recommend soon vaccination of people over 65 also with the Astrazeneca vaccine, Greece’s Health Minister Vassilis Kikilias announced on Wednesday.
Three different vaccines against the coronavirus have become available in Greece since vaccinations began two months ago, said National Vaccination Committee President Maria Theodoridou has said.
All three vaccines from pharmaceuticals manufacturers AstraZeneca, Moderna and Pfizer are effective against the British variant of the coronavirus, she noted.
The vaccine by Johnson & Johnson is 86% effective against serious Covid-19 infections and 100% effective in preventing the patient’s death, she stressed. It is a convenient, single dose vaccine, she added.
Effectiveness of the vaccines is not reduced in cases when someone who has received the first dose is infected after the fact, she highlighted. Moreover, anyone who is infected will have to be vaccinated regardless.
Health Secretary General for Primary Health Care Marios Themistokleous said that only 6 cases of minor complications arising from coronavirus inoculations have so far been reported in the country.
