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Greece’s National Vaccination Committee announced the categories of citizens who should receive the updated vaccines against Covid-19, approved to be administered exclusively as a booster shot. The 3rd booster shot is for the Omicron variants. According to the members of the vaccination committee, before the administration of the updated bivalent …

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The platform for vaccination against Covid-19 with upgraded vaccines has already opened and citizens can get their vaccinations already from Wednesday, September 14, 2022, the president of Greece’s National Vaccination Committee Maria Theodoridou announced on Monday. The platform for appointments opened on Monday, September 12, the first vaccinations with the …

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“Repeated vaccinations are not a viable strategy against Covid-19 and the booster shot does not build a wall of immunity,” the president of Greece’s National Vaccination Committee, Professor Maria Theodoridou, said on Tuesday evening. During the Live Briefing, Theodoridou expressed also reservations about the fourth dose of vaccination. Speaking about …

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Young people under 18 years of age do not have to get a booster shot, unless they suffer from reduced immunity due to  medication or some illness, National Vaccination Committee chair Maria Theodoridou said on Monday. During a regular briefing, Theodoridou also said that children and teenagers who have contracted …

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Greece opened on Monday afternoon, January 10, the online platform for citizens who were administered vaccines against Covid-19 abroad. Registration to the platform will enable holders of an EU Digital COVID Certificate or of  one of a third country to have their vaccinations also registered in Greece. Especially those over …

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From February 1, those who have completed seven months after their basic vaccination against Covid-19 and have not taken the booster shot will be considered as unvaccinated, Greece’s Health Minister Thanos Plevris announced on Sunday. The measure will apply to all adults over 18 years old and not only to …

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The vaccination certificate after a full vaccination with 2 doses will expire after seven months of the holder does not get administered the booster shot, Greece’s Health Minister Thanos Plevris said on Thursday. Speaking to Skai TV, Plevris said that authorities have “almost taken the decision” and that the official …

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Greece’s National Vaccination Committee rushes to decide on a fourth dose of vaccine against Covid-19 for a special category of people. The 4th dose could be administered even one month after the booster shot, the 3rd dose, media report on Thursday afternoon. Greece reaction comes less than 12 hours after …

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Citizens who have been vaccinated abroad with two doses and want to be administered the booster shot -third dose – in Greece, will have to go to municipality citizens’ offices KEP and make the necessary arrangements, secretary general for the Primary Health Care Marios Themistokleous announced on Friday. “the can …

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Greece’s Health Ministry announced Friday evening that all citizens above 18 years old will be able to book their booster shot for the Covid-19 vaccine 3 months after their second vaccine. Secretary-general for Primary Health Care Marios Themistokleous announced at an extraordinarily press conference on Friday even that the vaccinations …

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Greece’s National Vaccination Committee apparently adopted and approved the recommendation of the Prime Minister, a politician, that citizens can be administered the booster shot of vaccines against Covid-19 in 4 months and not in 6 as widely recommenced globally. Secretary general for Primary Health Care, Marios Themistokelous, told Skai TV …

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Greek Prime Minister and obviously wanna-be-medical-doctor Kyriakos Mitsotakis surprised medical staff at hospitals on Wednesday when he claimed that “ICUs are in fact “unnecessary” as there is no medical “study that there are more deaths of intubated Covid-patients outside ICU than inside.” “Yes, there are intubated [Covid-patients] outside the ICUs. …

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Τhe European Union said on Thursday that the EU Covid-Pass for cross-border travel will expire nine months after the last vaccine dose. A booster shot will be required to extend the certificate’s validity. In a travel recommendation unveiled on Thursday afternoon, the European Commission updated the rules of the COVID- …

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Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis proposed to European Commission that booster shot with vaccines against Covid-19 becomes a “precondition” for a valid EU digital certificate for traveling citizens aged over 60. In a letter sent to Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Wednesday, Mitsotakis proposed that a third dose …

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Secretary General of Greece’s Primary Health Care, Marios Themistokleous, gave detailed instructions for the administration of the booster shot – 3rd dose- of the vaccines against Covid-19. Speaking at the Live Briefing on Monday, Themistoklous clarified which vaccine can be chosen by citizens who have had administered mRNA, AstraZeneca or …

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Head of Greece’s National Vaccination Committee Maria Theodoridou stressed on Monday that immunity and antibodies develop very fast after the booster shot, in only two or three days from the day of inoculation. At the weekly Live Briefing, Professor Theodoridou also underlined that third dose jabs help reduce the spread …

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The platform to book booster shot for people who got the Pfizer, Moderna or AstraZeneca vaccines will open five and a half months after the second dose, but the jab will be administered after a minimum period of six months, according to a Health Ministry official on Wednesday. Recipients of …

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People wishing to book a slot to receive a booster shot of the Moderna vaccine will be able to do so from Friday, November 12, on the relevant vaccine website, Marios Themistokleous, general secretary for primary care at the Health Ministry, announced on Monday. Last week, the platform for booster …

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The platform to book appointment for the booster shot of vaccination against Covid-19 will open for all citizens above 18 years old on Friday,November  5, 2021. Citizens can receive the booster shot six months after the have completed the initial vaccination. The platform opens a day before new restrictions go …

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People of any age who have been administered the Johnson & Johnson vaccine will be able to register online for the booster shot as of November 5, Primary Health Care Secretary General Marios Themistocleous said on Tuesday. During a briefing, Themistocleous said the only prerequisite is that two months have …

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