Greece: Thousands march through Thessaloniki against vaccine mandate amid rising case numbers

Subscribe to our channel! Thousands of protesters marched through Thessaloniki in a show of disapproval for the governments’ COVID-19 vaccination policy on Wednesday. The legislation submitted by the Greek government is to make vaccination against COVID-19 mandatory for employees at nursing homes and care facilities. “Why are we here? Because we are opposed to mandatory vaccination (against COVID-19). We want every Greek to decide what he wants to do to his body,“ said Komninos Georgios, a protester. Greece has seen a recent increase in COVID-19 infections, with the authorities having announced a curfew on the island of Mykonos, a tourism hotspot, in the middle of the popular summer holidays season. A similar protest, attended by over a thousand people, was also seen outside the Greek Parliament in Athens on the same day. According to the latest data compiled by the Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Centre, Greece has seen a total of 466,441 cases of COVID-19, with