Mitsotakis urges citizens to volunteer for random testing

Greek Premier Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Tuesday called on citizens to take part in the random testing scheme set up to establish a better understanding of the number of people infected with SARS-CoV-2.

"Rapid tests allow us to monitor the rate of positivity [for SARS-CoV-2] in our fellow citizens that are asymptomatic. This information is extremely important in order to quickly locate possible local epidemics, so that we can intervene rapidly and locally to contain them," he said during his visit to the Peristeri Multidisciplinary Health Centre.

The centre is one of 386 testing sites participating in the plan to perform 12,000 rapid tests for novel coronavirus a day, through the testing.gov.gr platform, with a random selection of volunteers.

"We have said many times that the vaccine is the start of the end of the pandemic. Until, however, until a significant...