April 24, 2023
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
Greece’s National Organization for Medicines EOF released its report on side effects and deaths caused by vaccines against COvid-19. 63 deaths and 1,633 side effects have been officially recorded by EOF in the two years of vaccinations. Among a total of 22,120,416 doses of vaccines for the coronavirus that have …
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December 19, 2022
Social, Society
Vaccines against the flu can be administered in pharmacies without doctor’s prescription and free of charge for certain groups of citizens, Greece’s health ministry announced. The flu vaccine will be paid to pharmacists by the National Health Care Organization EOPY and the insurance funds. According to the relevant circular, groups …
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December 6, 2022
Society, Very Mix
A pediatrician in collaboration with a pharmacist are involved in the illegal trafficking of vaccines for children. the case of the illegal possession and trafficking of vaccines for children by a private pediatrician in collaboration with a private pharmacy was revealed after an anonymous complaint. Following the complaint, inspectors of …
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September 14, 2022
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
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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September 12, 2022
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
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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September 1, 2022
CORONAVIRUS
The European Medicines Agency has approved two booster vaccines against the Omicron variant of COVID-19 manufactured by drugmakers Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna. Following an extraordinary meeting at its headquarters in Amsterdam, the EMA explained that the adapted vaccines “can extend protection against different variants and are therefore expected to help maintain …
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August 11, 2022
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
The supply of the new, updated vaccines against Covid-19 will take place in two phases until the end of the year, Greece’s health minister Thanos Plevris said on Thursday. Initially, the updated vaccines for the Omicron mutation are expected, followed by the even more updated ones for sub-variants 4 and …
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August 5, 2022
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
The approval of the updated vaccines against COVID-19 in relation with the variant Omicron is expected in August, Greece’s Health Minister Thanos Plevris said on Friday. Speaking to Skai FM, Plevris said that the new vaccines will protect from the infection, the illness and the serious illness, according to information …
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May 24, 2022
Very Mix
Greece’s National Vaccination Committee has drawn up a roadmap regarding vaccinations against the monkeypox. At the same time, the country’s health authorities are awaiting recommendations by the European ECDC regarding the strategy to be followed and the use of vaccines against smallpox, vaccines that seem to provide some protection against …
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April 5, 2022
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
Greece’s National Vaccination Committee gave the green light for the 4th dose of vaccination against Covid-19 for citizens over 60 years old as well as for vulnerable groups including children. “Those who got sick with Covid after the third dose (booster shot) will not need the fourth dose,” Committee’s president …
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March 29, 2022
CORONAVIRUS
Dimitris Kouvelas, professor of clinical pharmacology at the Aristotle University and a vocal critic of the vaccines against Covid-19 and the coronavirus containment measures, went on trial in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, on Tuesday for disseminating misinformation regarding the Covid-19 vaccine. Kouvelas was put under investigation and indicted last year after …
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December 20, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
Covid vaccines are clearly less effective against Omicron, said Emer Cook, head of European drugs regulator EMA. It will take time to reach consensus on variant-targeted vaccines, she added urging people to get vaccinated and boosted when offered a jab ‘because that’s the best protection at this point in time.’ …
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December 2, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
A fourth dose of vaccine against Covid-19 may be needed later on in the pandemic to protect the general public from the new Omicron variant of the coronavirus, microbiology professor and member of the Greek Health Ministry’s committee of experts on the pandemic, Athanasios Tsakris said on Thursday. Tsakris said …
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September 7, 2021
Greece, Politics
Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias delivered 100,000 vaccines against Covid-18 to Tunisia the country he visited on Tuesday. During his meeting with Tunisian counterpart Othman Jerandi, said Dendias said: “It is a great pleasure to be in Tunis today, more so as I have brought with me 100,000 vaccines, which I …
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July 26, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
Greece’s health experts used tough language at the live briefing on Monday and called doctors who incite and advise citizens against the vaccination against Covid-19 “charlatans.” General Secretary of Primary Health Care, Marios Themistokleous, described the doctors participating in the anti-vaccination movement as “charlatans” and called on the bodies in …
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June 25, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED, Tourism
Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron blasted Greece and other tourism-dependent nations for freely accepting visitors who were inoculated with less effective Chinese and Russian vaccines, signaling the possibility of additional curbs on travel ahead of the peak tourist season. During a summit of European Union leaders behind closed doors in …
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June 3, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
Greece will supply its northern neighbors Albania and North Macedonia with 40,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccines, the government spokeswoman said on Thursday. “Greece, in coordination with the European Commission, as most European countries do for their neighbours, will offer vaccines…20,000 doses to North Macedonia and 20,000 to Albania,” Aristotelia Peloni …
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May 11, 2021
FEATURED, Very Mix
People who can prove they have suffered serious injury or side effects from a vaccine can claim compensation from the State, Greece’s top administrative court the Council of State said on Monday. The Court ruled in favor of a mother who claimed and won compensation for her daughter’s death after …
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May 6, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED, Greece
It may seems hard to believe but it is true: The decision of US President Joe Biden and his administration to support a temporary waiver on patents and other intellectual property protections for COVID-19 vaccines triggered a major political dispute in …Greece. The conservative government to claim that it was …
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March 29, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
Greece proceeds with fast pace with the inoculation of citizens and the online platform where citizens aged 65-69 can book an appointment for vaccination against Covid-19 will open on Friday, April 2, 2021, Greece’s health authorities said on Monday. Speaking at the Live Briefing on Monday,health authorities revealed also that …
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