Athens: Greece said it would end free testing for people who were not vaccinated to increase the level of inoculation and head off spikes that were updated in the Delta variant infection against the Coronavirus.
This country has recorded 13,422 deaths since reporting its first Covid-19 outbreak in February 2020.
New actions that will take effect on September 13 stops forcing people to take JAB, but end free testing and obliging people who are not tested to test.
or twice a week, depending on their profession.
Fast test costs, set at 10 euros ($ 12), is a large amount of money for people in a crisis-hit country where the average salary is 1,161 euros a month.
The authorities say about six million people in the country 11 million have received one or two doses of coronavirus vaccine, but that one million is needed more to build adequate immunity.
“Unlike the fall of last year, this fall everyone can be vaccinated,” said Minister of Health Vassilis Kikilias.
“Do we live, or play Russian Roulette with Coronavirus?” Free testing for vaccinated people will continue, said Kikilias.
“These steps do not punish,” he said.
“They are our duty for everyone who passes 18 months of pandemics carefully, those who lose their shops, work, must work from home to protect themselves.” About 53 percent of Greece’s population was fully vaccinated.
Authorities hope to increase that number to 70 percent in the fall.