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The possibility of over-transmission in the squares due to overcrowding was expressed by the professor and member of the infectious diseases committee, Charalambos Gogos, speaking on SKAI television.
As you mentioned, when we are in places with such gatherings and overcrowding, there is a high possibility of over-transmission. 80-90 or even 100 people can be infected in such cases.
In fact, he pointed out that the dispersion in Athens is due to all this. In these meetings of people without a mask. “They are one on top of the other and without a mask.”
Referring to the degree of transmission at an early age, he explained that at this time we have intubated people who are young. “We had a 28-year-old in Patras and a 17-year-old in Thessaloniki when he was young. They are not completely invulnerable. We have to take care of ourselves. The same goes for young people because no one knows how their immune system will react to something like this,” he characteristically said.
Regarding the measures, he said that “there is an escalation of measures and we have reached a point where there is a large package of measures at the moment with the traffic restriction that we must see and that if things continue like this we may need to new measurements like a mask everywhere. ” although with correct use.
Regarding the number of cases, he stressed that “we have to go down to a double-digit number of cases to be happy.”
“There was a risk with the increase in cases that we saw become 1000. Now there is a stability. At the moment the glass is half full. “
In turn, he referred to the parameters that are taken into account for decisions with the measures that have to do with the number of cases, the RT, the positivity of the tests, that is, how many tests we have positive in relation to this total shows the mobility of the virus as well as the possibility. of the system to cover the sick.
In addition, he said that from October 15 people should start getting vaccinated against the flu.
It should be noted that yesterday 218 new cases of the new virus were announced in the country, of which 39 are associated with known outbreaks and 39 were detected after controls at the country’s gateways. The total number of cases is 17,444, of which 55.8% are men.
2,825 (16.2%) are considered related to trips from abroad and 7242 (41.5%) are related to a known case.
68 of our fellow citizens are being treated by intubation. Their average age is 70 years. 16 (23.5%) are women and the rest are men. 86.8% of intubated patients have an underlying disease or are 70 years or older. 200 patients have been discharged from the ICU.
Finally, we have 3 more deaths registered and 379 deaths in total in the country. 142 (37.5%) women and the rest men. The mean age of our dying fellow citizens was 78 years and 96.6% had some underlying disease and / or were 70 years or older.
Source: skai.gr
