As Greece faces a new wave of Covid-19 contamination, the vaccination of children aged 5 to 11 began on Wednesday, December 15. More than 30,000 appointments have already been made in hospitals. Beyond the protection of the children themselves, it is officially for the Greek authorities to facilitate the maintenance of lessons in school, to indirectly protect the most vulnerable people and to avoid the too many mutations of the virus. .
With our correspondent in Athens, Joel bronner
At the Agia Sofia Children’s Hospital, under the amused gaze of his mother and grandmother, little Konstandinos, 5 and a half, says he doesn’t want to take another second or third dose: that is him hurt, he explains. Her mother, pregnant, nevertheless wanted to come from the first day of the opening of the vaccination to children.
” On television, I heard a pediatrician say that it was not consistent for adults who have been vaccinated, and are therefore protected, to leave their child unprotected., explains Konstandinos. And that it was better to put this protection in place as soon as possible. “
Another mom explains that she wants to be responsible vis-à-vis the whole of society and in particular to protect the grandparents of Michalis, 10, who has obviously learned the lesson: ” I feel great because it is good to be vaccinated. “
So far, in Greece, nearly 65% of adults have received at least two doses of the vaccine.
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