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The epidemiological landscape of the country is crucial due to increased daily incidence Of the youngs coronavirus, after hospitals of Attica to reach its limits.
The number of new infections in recent days is rekindling scenarios of additional containment measures, bringing the possibility of a local loxckdown in Attica.
The message that we are in a very critical phase of the pandemic was sent by the Vice Minister of Civil Protection, Nikos Hardals, during the information session of the Ministry of Health on the development of the Covid-19 disease in the country.
In our country we are in a very critical phase, especially in Attica, and even more so in the center of Athens, where, as we said in the previous briefing, we are in the “orange”“Characteristically pointed out the Vice Minister of Civil Protection.
For his part, the professor of the EKPA School of Medicine, Gikas Majorkinis, clarified that there is logic of avoiding horizontal measures, highlighting that the possibility of a new confinement has not been discussed in the Committee of Experts of the Ministry of Health.
“The prioritization of socio-economic activities“Taking at the same time its expected performance in reducing the epidemic”, highlighted among others Mr. Majorkinis.
At the same time, the country’s health personnel are raising the alarm about the continuous increase in the number of patients admitted to the ICU.
As stated by the Vice Minister of Health, Vassilis Kontozamanis, in Attica exist 107 ICU beds available of which occupied are 62 and there is a plan to increase them.
At noon on Tuesday, the general secretary of the Federation of Hospital Doctors of Greece (OENGE), Panagiotis Papanikolaou, announced that the General Assembly of Doctors of the General State of Nice “affirms that with these conditions of lack of personnel, infrastructure, etc. The hospital can no longer accept confirmed cases of Covid-19».
More than 350 dead in Greece
EODY announced Tuesday, 346 News cases coronavirus in the country, of which 2. 3 associated with known confluences and 25 They were found after checks at the gates of the country.
The total number of cases is 15,928, of which 55.7% are men.
Of the total number of cases, 2,651 (16.6%) are considered related to travel from abroad and 6687 (42.0%) are related to an already known case.
Total 77 Our fellow citizens are being treated intubated. Their average age is 69 years. 21 (27.3%) are women and the rest are men. 88.3% of intubated patients have an underlying disease or are 70 years or older. 185 the patients have been discharged from the ICU.
Finally, we have 8 deaths are still recorded and 352 deaths in the country as a whole, of which 131 (37.2%) are women and the rest men.
The average age of our dying fellow citizens was 78 years and 96.9% had some underlying disease and / or were 70 years or older.
The “map” of new cases
- 25 cases during controls carried out at the country’s entry gates
- 3 imported cases that came voluntarily to be examined
- 210 cases in the Attica region, of which 6 are related to known outbreaks, while 10 report recent travel within the country
- 19 cases in PE Thessaloniki, of which 1 is associated with a known influx, while 2 report recent travel within the country
- 11 cases in PE Kozani, of which 1 is associated with a known confluence
- 7 cases in PE Samos, of which 6 are connected
with known confluence - 9 cases in PE Trikala, of which 2 are connected by a known confluence
- 6 cases in PE Heraklion
- 5 cases in PE Argolida
- 5 cases in PE from acaya
- 5 cases in PE Imathia, 2 of which are associated with known confluences
- 4 cases in PE Pieria
- 3 cases in PE Corfu
- 3 cases in PE Larissa, of which 2 are connected by a known confluence
- 3 cases in Halkidiki prefecture, of which 2 are associated with a known confluence
- 2 cases in PE Grevena
- 2 cases in PE Ioannina
- 2 cases in PE Kastoria
- 2 cases in PE Kilkis
- 1 case in PE Kos
- 2 cases in PE Lassithi
- 2 cases in Xanthi prefecture
- 2 cases in PE Pella, of which 1 is associated with a known confluence
- 2 cases in PE Fthiotida
- 1 case in PE Evros
- 1 case in Ilia prefecture
- 1 case in Thira prefecture
- 1 case in Kavala prefecture
- 1 case in the prefecture of Kefalonia
- 1 case in PE Corinto
- 1 case in Rethymno prefecture
- 1 case in the Prefecture of Serres
- 3 cases are under investigation