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Gathering to … paint the Health safety map will have today the members of the expert committee of the Ministry of Health with five areas waiting in their … terminal to see what will be applied from now on for citizens and entrepreneurs.
As the experts say, the criteria for the next steps will be the Kozani case while they wait to see the effectiveness of the measures already implemented there with the milestone set for Friday, the day the Kyriakos Mitsotakis which is located in Cyprus for the tripartite with Cyprus and Egypt / Israel.
According to the information, first in the list of areas that will move to the next category (red to orange) are Janina and the Kastoria.
Even today a negative improvement, from yellow to orange, is expected for Thessaloniki with the governor of Central Macedonia Apostle Tzitzikosta intend that “If we do not faithfully implement and comply with the measures, we will enter a state of red alert and enter a blockade». In Thessaloniki the government spokesperson also mentioned Stelios Petsas who explained to cnn.gr that “at a local interest level we have never ruled out the possibility of applying the local closure, something that has happened in the past and the recent and the latest. But before we get to something like this, when we talk about very large areas like the city of Thessaloniki, we must bear in mind that already today, for example, with the fact that Thessaloniki seems to be rising to the danger level and rising to “orange “Some measures will be taken, such as teleworking or scheduling problems.” Such measures will be taken anyway in cities like Thessaloniki. “
Danger Zones
The information indicates that one step before the next level is also the Serres (from green to yellow), the Maroon (from yellow to orange) while the “microscope” has also entered Boeotia, an area where 30 cases were reported yesterday, 22 of which are related to known outbreaks.
Especially in terms of Ioannina and Kastoria. Hardals noted during yesterday’s briefing that “because epidemiological multipliers are high and there are many dispersed clusters (outbreaks), the increase becomes aggressive, therefore dangerous.”
In addition to local measures, the government is considering their implementation. “Mask everywhere”, that is, even outdoors that are not crowded, but also that of the prohibition of night traffic, as is done in Paris., where from 9:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. … nothing moves, due to the increase in the epidemiological burden. It is considered that the night lockdown “helps” to break the chain of transmission of the virus by young people, since on the one hand they will “empty” the discos, where there is overcrowding, but it will also deal with congestion in squares and parks later. at midnight, when the shops close.
In general, and according to your data Civil protection, throughout the country there are 5,185 people with active coronavirus infection and 6,618 close contacts followed at home. That is, a total of 11,595 people are in quarantine, a record number of eight months.
At the same time, on Tuesday, the number of hospitalized patients was 780, a very high figure for the data so far that patients had not exceeded 720. In terms of deaths, the record for the “heaviest month was already broken. “of the eight months. epidemic, which was last September with 125 victims, since so far 139 people have lost their lives due to Covid-19 infection.
The young “leaders” of the epidemic
A common denominator in these areas in the spread of the epidemic is, as they highlighted during the briefing on Tuesday for the coronavirus at the Ministry of Health, the Professor of Epidemiology, Gikas Majorkinis and the Deputy Minister of Civil Protection, Nikos Hardalias, 18 to 39 year olds. Indicatively reported that people with active infection COVID-19 They have an average age of 30 years in Thessaloniki and 33 years in Attica.
“Now they lead the epidemic in our country” they characteristically said. That is, they are those that are confirmed positive for the coronavirus, who may present symptoms and become ill or not, but who transmit the virus regardless of whether they have symptoms of Covid-19 infection or not. They are the ones who have a catalytic role in the transmission of the epidemic, in the infection of the vulnerable and the elderly and in its dramatic, usually fatal, course if they become ill and are hospitalized. And above all, it is they who must pay more attention to the observance of protection measures for themselves and others.
“The increase in the epidemic is led by the 18 to 39 age group, at a rate of 60% -70% more than expected. This age group appears to have strengthened by 10-20% in the last few days, in its participation in the epidemic compared to the previous weeks. “said Mr. Majorkinis. According to him, of the other age groups, the 40-64 age group seems to have increased their participation in the epidemic dynamics in the last two months, with a percentage up to 30% higher than expected. The rest of the age groups still participate with relatively low levels in the cases, without much concern for the experts.
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