Tsipras in Parliament – Government behaves as if the pandemic is over – We lose 300 people a week

Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Alexis Tsipras are crossingr swords in the Plenary Session of the Parliament on the central theme of the pandemic.

Starting from the pandemic, Alexis Tsipras stated that after August our country is in the worst places in Europe as concerns infections per million population. Every week we lose 300 of our fellow human beings, he said.

The government’s behavior is as if the issue of the pandemic is over. Last year at such a time we had recorded 400 losses. Today, a year later, we mourn over 15,000 of our fellow citizens.

“You are trying to hide your catastrophic failure and in your effort you are hiding the truth from the citizens.”

The president of SY.RIZ.A, stated that since the beginning of August, our country has surpassed even countries that have experienced economic disaster, such as Italy and Sweden.

The president of the official opposition also commented on the transmissibility index, which remains above 1.0.

“Hospitals, despite the health crisis we are experiencing, remain understaffed. At the same time the main goal which was to create a wall of immunity through universal vaccination seems to becoming abandoned. “Greece is by far the last of the countries in the south of Europe in vaccination coverage”, said Mr. Tsipras.

As an example to be imitated for the vaccination operation, Mr. Tsipras presented Portugal, which as he stressed has a vaccination rate of over 80%, while in Greece this percentage is 60%.

Regarding schools, Mr. Tsipras said that the number of sick minors has doubled.