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August is a month of fire for the course of the coronavirus in our country since it will not only close with record numbers since the beginning of the pandemic, but it will also play a decisive role in both the opening of schools and the adoption (or not) of new measures.
And we may not have broken the 300 daily case barrier this week, but we have not dropped below 1,000 cases as EODY announced 1,621 COVID-19 infections in the past 7 days.
It is also recalled that on Wednesday 8/26 our country registered a negative record of cases, with EODY announcing 293 infections.
Crucial the weekend
However, apart from the increase in daily cases that still worry experts, this three-day period is considered crucial due to the return of the hikers.
As experts and authorities explain, the arrival of the last of your summer holidays will largely determine the numbers for the next few days.
August, as everything shows, will close with record figures since the beginning of the pandemic in our country, as explained by Mr. Gikas Majorkinis, the holidays and the young man helped spread the virus. 
“The virus generally causes very mild symptoms in young people, so they remain undiagnosed and transmissions from young people are almost untraceable,” he said.
The “silent” dispersal of young people
“The virus in young people usually causes very mild symptoms, so they go undiagnosed and transmissions from young people are almost impossible to detect.” So when we return from vacation, we must consider ourselves silent actors and try to limit for a period 7-10 days, social contacts and wearing a mask on close contacts. “Majorkinis in Friday’s update.
Koronaios: New cases in Greece in the last 7 days
August 29: 177 cases
August 28: 270 cases
August 27: 259 cases
August 26: 293 cases
August 25: 168 cases
August 24: 170 cases
August 23: 284 cases
“Headache” return to desks
Parents and teachers, the latter assuming the role of pediatrician and health supervisor, are eager to open schools.
The controversy of the scientists on the date in which the first bell will ring and especially the conditions that will prevail in the classrooms intensifies the fears. Especially when with arguments that lose the battle with logic they try to convince that classes with a number of students that reach 25 and 30 are safe.
The first bell for the new school year indicates that it will finally ring on September 14 for all levels of education (elementary, middle and high school) and official government announcements are expected for Tuesday, September 1.
The opposing opinions that favor the inauguration on September 7 are not far behind, the last argument added to the controversy being that it is very likely that there will be a sharp increase in the cases in which the cold begins and people are indoors and in schools. to have to close again, it will be good for students to save time and hours of lessons. 
Under these circumstances, and with parents bombarded with difficult information about the virus and all these sometimes contradictory opinions, it is probably safe to say that if the government responses given on September 1 are unconvincing and do not show the existence of a plan and Real knowledge of problems and dangers The role of school as a place for children’s socialization, making friends and a balanced personality will fail. And this, because if parents are convinced that the government operates on the basis of “we see and do” by risking dangerous practices, they will fill children with so many “no” and “care” that they will hate school.
The problem with workplaces
Clear answers and planning are needed not just for schools but also for workplaces. Many companies are already asking their employees to get tested for the virus before returning to work.
In good cases the cost is borne by the employer, but in many cases this fund must also be withdrawn from the already ruined family budget, with the first complaints of employer arbitrariness and unreasonable demands appearing and the unions asking for protection measures. employees.
Difficulties lie ahead in terms of developments with the virus and in terms of its critical social and economic consequences. Calm is needed and above all planning for immediate and effective solutions, before the Greeks – “sprinkled” alongside the discontents – take to the streets shouting “the crown is a lie” and oppose protection measures, as has started to occur in other countries. of Europe. 
Sypsas: schools may close again in December
The possibility of schools having to close again in winter was first raised by Infectious Diseases teacher Nikos Sypsas.
Speaking to SKAI, he was in favor of opening schools on September 7, as he said, students should save time in case they have to close schools again in December or January, if cases increase too much.
Regarding the disagreement among scientists on whether departments should “break down” to have fewer students, he stressed that “if the state has the capacity to make smaller departments, it should.” If this is not possible, 25 students per class must go to school, but wearing masks. “
Asked about the “ups and downs” observed in the number of cases in recent days, Sypsas noted that there appears to be a “flattening of the August curve”, but noted that next week will be crucial, since then the results will be seen. impact of August 15, when the biggest wave of licensees of the summer was registered.
Finally, with regard to the measures that those who return from vacation should take, he stressed that self-control is a better measure even than the test and recommended that there be a smooth transition in the fall.
Majorkinis: 10-fold increase in transmissibility since October
Fall will be tough, according to Assistant Professor of Hygiene and Epidemiology Gika Majorkin.
“The coronavirus is not going to disappear,” emphasizes Majorkinis in an interview he gave to the insert “Secret” of the Parapolitika newspaper.
The Adjunct Professor of Hygiene and Epidemiology and Scientific Officer of the National Retrovirus Reference Center of the Laboratory of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Athens highlights that as of October, due to the drop in temperature, the world will be closed. hence a tenfold increase in the transmissibility of Covid-19 disease.
Cases in Attica are in “red”
On Saturday, EODY announced 177 new cases and one death from coronavirus.
Of these cases, 20 were identified after controls at the gates of the country. The total number of cases is 9977, of which 55.6% are men.
Of the 156 domestic cases, 21 are associated with confirmed case contact, 18 with known outbreaks, and 12 with recent travel within the country.
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