Greece holidays 2021 ‘to resume by May’ but Spain will be further behind, predicts travel expert
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Updated: 4 Feb 2021, 16:08
GREECE holidays will be some of the first to restart, a travel expert has predicted - but Spain may be further behind.
While holidays abroad are off the cards for Brits due to the UK lockdown, many families will be eagerly awaiting for the day they can go away again.
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Greece could be the first destination to open up to Brits this summerCredit: Alamy
PC Agency s Paul Charles explained that cases in Greece were some of the lowest in Europe which could help it welcome tourists back sooner that other destinations.
Portugal has administered over 338,000 doses of vaccine By TPN/Lusa, in News, Health · 03-02-2021 19:10:00 · 2 Comments
Portugal has already administered over 338,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccine, including over 269,000 first doses and over 68,000 second doses, according to the Directorate General for Health (DGS).
Questioned by Lusa, the DGS said that on 31 January had been applied 269,563 first doses and 68,7747 second doses, totalling 338,310 doses, equivalent to about 3.3 percent of the population.
The information differs from the online vaccination monitor of the European Centre for Disease Control (ECDC), where only about 166,000 first doses administered in Portugal are recorded.
The DGS states that this information does not correspond to that submitted on the TESSy platform (European Surveillance System)
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Demedicalisation Demedicalisation was a word much used in the workshop. It was acknowledged that simply for reasons of capacity, expanding PrEP provision would be difficult if every appointment had to involve a doctor (some countries still require a doctor’s permission or presence even for an HIV test).
There was a lot of discussion about how PrEP services could be demedicalised to some extent without compromising safety. For instance, kidney function tests probably did not have to happen every three months for people aged over 45 and could be done with a urine dipstick.
But there was concern about total demedicalisation – a PrEP over the counter model, as effectively already happens with unlinked online purchase. A UK doctor said that although serious adverse events were rare, there had been a few cases of pancreatitis in the IMPACT implementation study in England. If people were able to start without an HIV test, the small possibility of PrEP use during acute HIV infecti