Mitsotakis: Next 10 days crucial, vaccine must not breed complacency

PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis warned that news of Pfizer's expected COVID-19 vaccine must not cultivate a sense of security and that the next ten days will be decisive in determining how the epidemic will develop in Greece.

Mitsotakis was participating in a teleconference of the COVID Management Group of countries that handled the first wave of the pandemic successfully.

Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Australian Prime Minister Loong Scott participated in the teleconference.

Mitsotakis spoke about the need to coordinate the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines and the technical specifications required so that populations can be vaccinated as soon as possible.

The logistics of global distributions of vaccines (there will on all likelihood be more than one) have yet to be ironed out but the EU has already ordered 300mn vaccines and will be coordinating their distribution.

Mitsotakis referred to the hopeful announcement of Pfizer's vaccine, which is said to be 90 percent effective and brought international jubilation.
He stressed the need for continued strict enforcement of public health measures and that anticipation of a vaccine must not prompt citizens to relax their guard with a sense of complacency.

The second meeting of the prime ministers focused mainly on plans and strategies to restart their countries' economies and to gradually re-open economic and social activity, as lockdowns have had a devastating effect on the economies of countries that have implemented them.
Mitsotakis spoke about developments in Greece and ...