Tsipras meets with health experts, urges people to get vaccinated
SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance leader Alexis Tsipras expressed his concern about the current course of the persistent coronavirus pandemic in the country, after meeting with health experts on Tuesday.
The main opposition party leader met with epidemiologist Athina Linou and Sotiris Tsiodras, the head of the health ministry's coronavirus health experts committee. He also expressed concern for what he called the government's "inconsistent handling" of the pandemic, saying that they threaten the trust Greek society has in the scientific community.
Tsipras urged citizens to "take their lives and health into their own hands" and get vaccinated, to keep wearing face masks and observe all public health safety measures.
Referring to Monday's government announcement on mandatory inoculations for certain types of workers, like hospital staff, Tsipras called on the government to "abandon the divisive rhetoric, the social segregation, and the generalization of the obligation to vaccination." All this, he added, "will have the exact opposite effect."
Source: ana-mpa
