Priority should be given to the vaccination of seafarers in passenger shipping and more broadly to all employees in public transport, the Panhellenic Union of Merchant Mariners (PENEN) calls for, saying that all shipping companies should measure for the health protection of seafarers".
According to PENEN, at least 12 cases of coronavirus have been reported recently to members of the ship's crew, in various specialties.
"The situation in the area of passenger shipping, which is the main transport link of the mainland with the island complex, the synchronicity that inevitably exists inside the closed spaces of ships, makes it necessary, in combination with the outbreak of the pandemic, to conduct mass tests in all the ships and in fact repeated at regular intervals "points out in its announcement the Panhellenic Association of Merchant Marine Sailors.