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		</div><p>Greece introduced mandatory weekly testing for all unvaccinated workers as it struggles to boost vaccination rates that are lagging behind the European Union average.</p>
<p>Public and private sector employees will have to pay for weekly tests or carry a vaccination certificate to gain access to their place of work, while unvaccinated children at secondary schools which reopened on Monday are being given test kits distributed at government expense.</p>
<p>Similar restrictions will also apply at sports stadiums, museums and archaeological sites, as well as indoor leisure areas like cinemas and restaurants.</p>
<p>Some 56% of Greece’s residents have been fully vaccinated, while the average rate in the EU is just over 60%.</p>
<p>Greece has imposed vaccine mandates for health care workers and allows the vaccination of children starting at age 12.</p>
<p>Lockdowns last year pushed the economy into recession, with 2020 output shrinking by 8.2%.</p>
<p>Government officials say the country cannot afford to halt economic activity for a second year.</p>
<p>“At the moment, the pandemic (in Greece) is showing signs of de-escalation, so the measures seem to be working,” development minister Adonis Georgiadis told private Skai television.</p>
<p>“Unfortunately this de-escalation is accompanied by the deaths of our fellow citizens who are unvaccinated.</p>
<p>“It hurts me to know that these people could have lived, but they fell victim to conspiracy theories.”</p>
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