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		</div><p>Hundreds of Greek health care workers protested in central Athens against mandatory coronavirus vaccines for their profession on Wednesday, a day after the government imposed more restrictions on unvaccinated Greeks amid a spike in infections, hospital admissions and deaths.</p>
<p>About 300 demonstrators chanted slogans and held up banners outside the parliament building, protesting against regulations that call for unvaccinated health care workers to be suspended from their jobs.</p>
<p>Health care unions have said they do not oppose the vaccines but object to them being required.</p>
<p>Vaccines against the coronavirus are compulsory for workers in Greece’s health care sector and those working in care homes for the elderly.</p>
<p>On Tuesday, Greece reported a record 6,700 new daily COVID-19 cases and 59 deaths, bringing the total in the country of about 11 million to more than 750,000 infections and more than 16,000 deaths since the start of the pandemic.</p>
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<p>Intensive care units for Covid-19 patients are at over 28% capacity, while regular coronavirus wards in hospitals are nearly half full, officials said.</p>
<p>The health minister, Thanos Plevris, said on Tuesday that tougher restrictions would be imposed as of Saturday for all unvaccinated people in Greece.</p>
<p>Anyone without a certificate of vaccination or recent recovery from Covid-19 will need to display a negative PCR or rapid test, conducted at their own cost at a private facility, for access to a wide range of facilities, including banks, public services, shops, hair salons and entertainment venues.</p>
<p>Public and private sector employees will also have to take two tests per week, up from the current one, to enter their workplaces.</p>
<p>About 61% of Greece’s total population has been fully vaccinated, and people age 12 and over are eligible for shots.</p>
<p>Booster shots are available for those over 50, and will be available starting on Friday to all adults who received their last vaccine dose six months earlier.</p>
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