Greece offers second COVID booster for people over 60

ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece will supply a second COVID-19 booster dose for folks aged 60 and above, a minimum of 4 months after the earlier shot, Greek well being officers mentioned on Tuesday.
“The relative platform will open on April seventh ,” Marios Themistocleous, Greek well being ministry’s secretary common in command of vaccinations advised a televised briefing.
One other well being ministry official mentioned that the choice to supply a fourth spherical of mRNA shot got here as infections within the nation had been nonetheless excessive and the booster dose has proven it was efficient in stopping COVID-related deaths.
Well being authorities reported 18,988 COVID-19 instances and 70 associated deaths on Tuesday, bringing the nation’s complete variety of infections to three.11 million. Some 27,816 have up to now died from the COVID-19 illness.
Out of a common inhabitants of 11 million, some 72% are absolutely vaccinated.
(Reporting by Lefteris Papadimas; Enhancing Frank Jack Daniel)