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Health authorities fight against time Central macedonia in order to “close” the transmission cycles that have opened the hundreds of cases of coronavirus since the great epidemic outbreak in food industry in Giannitsa, Pella. At the same time, there is concern among the experts of the Infectious Diseases Committee but also in the government about the situation that is developing in Attica, which has shown a steady increase in the number of cases in the last weeks after August 15. The proposal has been put on the table of measures to be implemented to prevent people from gathering outdoors, as well as for tightening the mask use in all interiors.
Epidemiological data and proposals to stop the epidemic will be put into Today’s conference of specialists in Infectious Diseases at the Maximos Palace, the completion of which is likely to launch new measures for congested areas, among which the basin dominates.
The influx of the food industry in Giannitsa that has “given” at least 160 confirmed cases in the areas Pella, Pieria, Imathia, Kilkis and Kastoria, as well as the confluence in an industrial recycling plant in Aspropyrgo, Attica Of which 29 cases have occurred so far, they relaunched the controls of the specialists for the detection of foci and for the suppression of the coronavirus.
So far, these confluences have not worried the experts or the authorities; is indicative that they are measured literally with the fingers of one hand, as confluences have been reported in the meat processing industry in Kavala and another olive standardization plant in Chalkidiki last month. On the contrary, in the previous period, there were many congestions in structures with closed populations, especially in Care Units for the Elderly as well as in Shelter Centers for refugees and immigrants.
Scientists treat the detection and further investigation of clusters in industrial units as a two-sided fact. On the one hand, it raises concerns about how the coronavirus find such a suitable land in industrial units, namely, food processing and standardization, where strict hygiene protocols must be followed. On the other hand, however, the “diagnosis” of new confluences is considered a fact that shows the quick reflexes from health authorities in locating the source of new infections. According to the circles of the Expert Committee, surrounding outbreaks of cases is particularly positive because in this way their spread can be largely controlled. The truth is that the specific confluences worry about what might happen next, both for the scope they can have and for the impact they can have on the general population.
Public hospitals are ready for influxes in Central Macedonia
The health authorities, however, are preparing for any eventuality. As an indication, yesterday the Ministry of Health with an announcement gave order to the governors of the 3rd Health District, Panagiotis Bogiatzidis and the 4th Health District, Dimitris Tsalikakis, to configure county hospitals Pella, Pieria, Imathia and Kilkis in a more prepared state, while requesting the president of EODY, Panagiotis Arkoumaneas, to intensify the controls carried out by the stairs and the Organization’s KOMY in the region of Central Macedonia.
The imprint of the intense circulation of the coronavirus is clear on the country’s health system. The so-called hard data of the epidemic, that is new diagnoses, hospitalizations, intubation, and deathsThey change at a slow but dramatic pace. The increase in cases as well as the slight increase in intubations and deaths are now constantly pointed out by experts in parallel with the need to comply with the measures. The death toll reaches 300, and about 100 of them have been registered since August.
In the same slow but dramatic upward trend are intubations that have now reached 50. Only in the last 24 hours intubations have increased by 3, while since the beginning of August their number has almost quintupled. The number of patients treated by intubation is 49 (75.5% men). Their average age is 70 years. 12 (24.5%) are women and the rest are men. 87.8% of intubated patients have an underlying disease or are 70 years or older.
The spread of the coronavirus in the country
Regardless of the confluence, the circulation of the coronavirus increases. They were located yesterday new cases in 25 areas. Attica ranks high on the case map, with more than 100 new cases which are in fact considered unrelated to travel or any other known case.
We remind you that yesterday or National Public Health Organization (EODY) announced that the new laboratory confirms that there are 372 cases of the disease, of which 164 are associated with known outbreaks and 21 were identified after controls at the gates of the country. the 114 are associated with a known confluence in the food industry in PE Pella, 29 are associated with a known confluence in a recycling industry in Attica and 21 come from several known confluences from previous days.
The total number of cases amounts to 12,452 of which 55.5% are men. Of the total of cases, 2,324 (18.7%) are considered related to travel from abroad and 5,511 (44.3%) are related to an already known case. There are 4 new deaths of COVID-19 patients, while a total of 297 deaths have been recorded since the start of the epidemic. 110 (37.0%) were women and the rest men. The median age of death was 78 years and 96.3% had an underlying disease and / or were 70 years or older. Finally, 167 patients have been discharged from the ICU.
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