Platform for vaccination of general population to open Monday, starting with over-85s

A government platform designed to organize the country's public coronavirus vaccination campaign is due to launch on Monday, with the registration of citizens aged over 85 years old.

Following the immunization of thousands of health and care workers around the country, the government hopes to start vaccinating the general population as of January 20, commencing with older citizens who are most at risk.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, mewnahile, expressed satisfaction at the rate of vaccinations so far and said that authorities hope to increase that rate from around 5,000 a day to 8,000 if not more.

Speaking during a teleconference on the management of the pandemic in Greece, Mitsotakis said that there will be 223 hotlines operating at Greece's hospitals to organize the vaccination drive, while data on its progress will be published in a daily bulletin on...