Still not requiring mandatory shots, Greece’s New Democracy government now is leaning toward offering them to 12-15 year-olds in a bid to slow a re-surging COVID-19, while adding tougher restrictions.
The government’s advisory panel of doctors and scientists is trying to decide whether to recommend the shots for the youngsters even as a hard-core anti-vaxxer segment is holding back the fight against the pandemic.
A number of countries, including the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Japan and Italy have approved vaccination of that age group who are among the most resistant to the virus.
The government nonetheless believes vaccinating them will help beat back the pandemic while it’s not moving to make shots compulsory even for public employees or tourism workers while the virus spreads on islands.
After waiting for months, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis finally decided that shots would be mandatory for health care workers as less than half the country’s population of 10.7 million have been vaccinated and 70 percent is needed to help bring the pandemic to an end.
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