The bumpy road to ‘Freedom’

The road to "Freedom" - as the Greek government has dubbed its coronavirus vaccination drive - promises to be a bumpy one. We have already learned that Greece will receive a much smaller number of jabs in January than originally anticipated. The bad news conveyed by the government spokesman - that we'll be getting 300,000 instead of 1 million vaccines next month - is starting to make us realize that getting as much of the population inoculated as necessary will be anything but easy. And if it's any comfort, Greece is not the exception, as this will be the case in many, many countries.

People with inside knowledge of the preparations going into the vaccination campaign say it's tantamount to a military operation. This also raises the question whether naming the campaign "Freedom" was a deliberate reference to the fact that 2021 also marks the bicentennial anniversary of the...

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