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The health ministry will investigate complaints that people in non-priority groups jumped the queue for vaccinations, minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Friday.

The statement follows complaints by organised patients, among others, that instead of people in high-risk groups been given priority, some healthcare professionals but also others who are non-eligible at this stage, were able to get vaccinated “through lies and interventions”.

Both Ioannou and deputy head of the state medical and public health service, Olga Kalakouta, said on Friday that there have been attempted interventions but that as far as the health ministry is concerned, they themselves are playing by the book.

However, on the first day of vaccinations at Famagusta hospital, the ministry’s permanent secretary Christina Yiannaki was vaccinated in front of TV cameras and also spoke to reporters afterwards. It later emerged that not even the health minister knew of her plan, finding out from the media later.

Ioannou, replying to a question after announcing the new measures against the spread of coronavirus, said that when the vaccines arrived, during the first phase of vaccinations, public and private hospitals and nursing homes were asked to provide lists of people healthcare workers in the frontline.

He said that if some hospitals gave the names of doctors non-eligible it will be assessed and actions will be taken.

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https://cyprus-mail.com/2021/01/08/coronavirus-complaints-that-individuals-jumped-vaccine-queue-to-be-investigated/

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