Civil Protection Secretariat
PM says vaccination of general population to start on Jan. 20
The vaccination of the general population against the coronavirus will begin on January 20, starting with those aged 85 or above, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said during a meeting he chaired at the headquarters of the Civil Protection Secretariat on Tuesday evening.
The online platform for the electronic booking of inoculation appointments will open on January 11.
Factory fire shuts down highway
A big fire at a plastics factory in the northern Athens suburb of Metamorfossi has shut down the highway to Thessaloniki, as well as the Attiki Odos ring road, near its junction with the highway.
Early in the afternoon, the direction to the north was opened to traffic.
Tolls on the Attiki Odos open segment to the airport are free.
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Large Evia fire brought under partial control
Fire fighters were able to bring under partial control a large blaze that broke out near the town of Karystos, in southern Evia, on Wednesday night.
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