Greece introduces mandatory weekly testing for unvaccinated workers

A Greek Orthodox priest blesses students in a classroom of a junior high school in Athens (Petros Giannakouris/AP)

Greece introduced mandatory weekly testing for all unvaccinated workers as it struggles to boost vaccination rates that are lagging behind the European Union average.

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.