Vaccination priorities set to change

At present, the government is preoccupied with health-related indicators, closely watching the spread of the coronavirus and hoping there won't be any major resurgence in cases over the next two months. But, after that, priorities will change.

After April, the government would like to see the economy open up, especially tourism, which normally accounts for 20% of the country's GDP and whose performance, in Greece as well as globally, was disastrous in 2020. There are also worrying signs about this year, since people are far less willing to commit to holidays. In that respect, the government is considering, once the inoculation of the over-60s - especially vulnerable to the disease - is completed, to give priority not to younger people but, specifically, to professionals of different categories.

In Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis' TV interview with Kathimerini's...