Greece introduces mandatory vaccination for health workers and only allows vaccinated people indoors. What does this mean for vacationers and tourists?
Athens – Greek wine could soon get stuck in the throat of unvaccinated holidaymakers. Because of the increasing incidence in Greece, new corona measures are coming to tourists and locals who are not yet able to prove a complete Covid-19 vaccination in their digital vaccination certificate.
| Country: | Greece |
| Capital: | Athens |
| Surface: | 131,957 km² |
| Population: | 10.72 million (2019) Eurostat |
| Islands (islets, islets, rock islands, rocks and reefs): | 3054 |
In other words: Unvaccinated people are not allowed to enter the interior of restaurants and cultural centers. So listening to Greek music and eating traditional dishes could be difficult from now on. Fortunately, most of life in sun-drenched Greece takes place outside. Nevertheless, this step is also a corona slap in the face for holidaymakers who are fond of party, although the ban on dancing for holidaymakers and locals in bars and clubs was already a done deal.
Incidence in Greece: Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis presents new corona rules – mandatory vaccination for health workers
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis (53) presented the new corona regulation on Monday evening, July 12, 2021. He also stated that employees in the health sector and in geriatric care, as in France, will also have to undergo a Covid-19 vaccination in the future have to. If this is not the case, there could be a risk of exemption from work.
“We will not close the country again because of the attitude of some,” said the prime minister in his speech on state television in no uncertain terms that a zero-tolerance line is being pursued towards those who refuse to be vaccinated.
Compulsory vaccination for employees in the health sector: Premier Mitsotakis gives reasons and speaks of a double threat
The reasoning followed immediately. Both plausible and sensible: The patients in the intensive care units are “99 percent not vaccinated,” said Mitsotakis, explaining the decision. Like other countries, Greece sees itself exposed to a double threat: the more aggressive Delta variant of the corona virus * and unvaccinated people. “Greece is not at risk, but the unvaccinated are,” Mitsotakis made his point of view clear.
Incidentally, the mandatory vaccination will also apply to all conscripts.
Corona easing withdrawn: The development of incidence in Greece bears responsibility
It was necessary to lift the far-reaching corona easing that had only recently been resolved, as the incidence in Greece has been on a clear upward trend over the past ten days. The number of new infections on Tuesday, July 13, 2021, is 2063, while the incidence is 133.4. There were also 10 deaths related to Covid-Sars-2.
On the one hand, these corona infection numbers don’t sound so dramatic, at least when compared to the United Kingdom, the Netherlands or Spain. Because although the UK has an incidence of well over 320, the government around Prime Minister Boris Johnson has decided to lift almost all corona measures.
An example that the Greek government is not following but is taking a similar path as two other European countries struggling with similar trends in incidence. The Netherlands, for example, is closing again, while beaches and bars in Spain or the region of Catalonia including the metropolis of Barcelona close at night.
Incidence in Greece is approaching the critical 200 mark – quarantine after vacation on Crete, Corfu or Rhodes?
The incidence in Greece has not yet reached the critical 200 mark, but the trend is heading towards it with seven-mile boots if you consider the development of the past few days. Therefore, Greece vacationers should know that now *. After all, it could also be significantly more unpleasant for German holidaymakers in Greece on the sunny islands such as Crete, Corfu, Rhodes and Santorini.
In the domestic Federal Republic of Germany, after the holiday in Greece, the ordered quarantine obligation of the health authorities could finally wait. Even if a Portugal vacationer had just successfully sued against it in the administrative court. * Kreiszeitung.de and wa.de are offers from IPPEN.MEDIA.
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