Police fire tear gas to disperse around 7,000 people gathered in Greek capital Athens to protest against a new rule obliging health workers to get vaccinated against Covid-19
Greece's government on Tuesday announced an array of new restrictions and the end, next month, of free testing for those who remain unjabbed against Covid-19 in an effort to boost vaccination rates.
The government took the measures in part to encourage people to get vaccinated, as the contagious Delta variant of Covid-19 takes hold. At the moment 99 percent of seriously ill coronavirus patients, those intubated in hospital, have not been vaccinated.Ten employees at a home in Volos, in the centre of the country, were recently suspended from work.
More than 5.7 million of Greece's 10.7 million inhabitants have been fully vaccinated against coronavirus,On Sunday Greece registered around 1,500 new Covid cases.
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