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The increase in cases in the last 7 days causes shock, since new infections reached 8,649 while the number of patients who are intubated in the ICU grows day by day, reaching 135 yesterday.
The alarming increase in cases that has spread to many parts of the country shows that the virus tends to take on uncontrollable proportions as in Thessaloniki breaking record after record, surpassing even Athens, which has a multiple population.
EODY’s announcements yesterday about the number of cases and intubations caused a stir, as it was the first time since the start of the pandemic that it broke the barrier of 2,000 new infections in a 24-hour period.
However, the number of cases announced for Thessaloniki also caused a stir.
The 839 new infections in the co-capital show that the situation in the past had started to worsen but now the numbers being announced daily are reaching alarming proportions.
The health system is under pressure
The increase in intubation across the country has gradually started to boost the healthcare system. It is not a coincidence that the Minister of Health, Vassilis Kikilias, implemented an emergency plan for Thessaloniki, securing 43 new ICU beds: Covid.
Specifically, 8 ICU-COVID beds are added to the GNT «Saint Paul», 10 beds in GNT «G. Gennimatas», 10 beds at PGNTH AHEPA, 4 beds at 424 Military Hospital, 6 beds at GNTH «G. Papanikolaou» and 5 beds at Halkidiki General Hospital. 
“2,000 cases easily turn into 000 4,000”
After yesterday’s registration of negative cases with 2,056 new cases, the scientists predicted that in the coming days it is very likely that there will be a new launch of the cases.
The big bet, after all, is whether the measures announced on Friday, which impose a series of new restrictions on the daily lives of millions of citizens in so-called high-risk areas, will bear fruit.
Panagiotis Gargalianos, specialist in infectious diseases, president of the Hellenic Infection Society, spoke on the “MEGA Weekend” program giving an assessment of the pandemic and whether the new measures will help reduce it.
As you said, it is important not only to take action but also to implement it. “Unless there is unity and solidarity of all Greeks, whatever measures we take, unless we are locked up, we will not have good results,” he warned.
When asked why it was not decided before to apply the mask measure everywhere, he replied that there were different opinions that had to do with the reflection on the fines that would be imposed. The decisions, however, as he clarified, are made by the State after suggestions. “The universal face mask issue was something that we thought could have been implemented earlier.”
In an assessment of the course of the pandemic, he said that “if we do not have full compliance and unanimity, we will reach cases that we did not imagine. If the exponential increase continues, it is easy for the 2000 cases to become 4000 cases. And this is not terror, but reality ”, he stressed.
The new health “map”
The Vice Minister of Civil Protection, Nikos Hardalias, presented the changes to the health map, with the territory now divided into two zones instead of four.
Specifically, the “green” and “yellow” areas are included in surveillance zone A and the “orange” and “red” areas are included in the highest risk zone B. 
47 areas are at the surveillance level (A) and 27 are at the increased risk level (B).
Concern about the launching of cases
Outbreaks seem to be exacerbated during this time of year and scientists and government officials are concerned.
The exponential increase in the number of registered cases but also the pressure that the National Health System is beginning to receive from patients and intubated in the ICU forced the government to adopt and announce a series of new restrictive measures in an attempt to extinguish “outbreaks “of its virus spread.
The one-month emergency plan announced by the Prime Minister is the first decisive step after the rapid increase in cases. Scientists and government personnel considered that the “lockout” in focus starting Tuesday in high-risk areas, including Attica, would help curb the virus, especially at a time when temperatures are beginning to drop and increasingly more. most would be indoors.
However, no one is sure that the new measures will significantly reduce the number of cases. If this is not done, it is very likely that government personnel will announce new restrictive measures even before the end of the month.
It is no coincidence that Charalambos Gogos, a member of the Infectious Diseases Committee, said that compliance with the measures announced by the Prime Minister on Saturday will determine their extension and escalation, or de-escalation. 
“In 15 days to 1 month we will see if the measures are effective, if we are not here to extend, scale or de-escalate them,” Charalambos Gogos told SKAI.
“Things are going badly in Thessaloniki, things are problematic in Athens.” Both the State and health workers must protect the health system, increase ICU beds for COVID, something that has begun, “said the professor.
Mr. Gogos clarified that it is possible that we will see an increase in cases in the coming days, since these were noticed with the previous measures in force.
“Unfortunately at the moment there is a big wave, we are in the most difficult phase of the global pandemic, maybe Greece is in a better position than the European average with ten times the number of victims and cases of the main European countries, and so on. “We can see what can happen and here we have the opportunity to see and prevent,” he stressed.
“We should have taken the measures earlier”
In fact, there is no shortage of scientists who emphasize that the measures should have been decided earlier. Manolis Dermitzakis pointed out that “we don’t have time, I hope the confinement lasts longer.”
He explained that in our country we take three packages of measures. “The previous ones were very light, they left no trace, we still see the result of the first package. The previous ones were a little heavier, they will leave their mark, and we have the new ones, with horizontal characteristics, which we will see in 2-3 weeks ”, he commented.
The professor estimated that the number of cases could reach 3,000 or more, but added that this is a normal course.
“If we had taken these measures (on Saturday) a month earlier, we would have been in a much better situation,” he said. “However, we have a good package of measures,” he added. 
Broke the barrier of 2000 cases
EODY’s announcements yesterday about the number of cases and intubations caused a stir as it was the first time since the start of the pandemic that it broke the barrier of 2,000 new infections in a 24-hour period.
New cases in Thessaloniki were particularly high compared to Friday, far exceeding the corresponding ones in Athens.
The co-capital – and northern Greece in general – becomes the “champion” of the second wave of the pandemic, after beating Attica for the second day in a row in cases.
It is shocking that 540 cases were recorded in Thessaloniki on Friday and 839 new infections were recorded on Saturday.
Attica also scored a negative “record” again with 464 new Covid-19 incidents.
It is recalled that even today Greece “reached” a negative case record with 2,056 new cases. Of these, 2,030 are domestic and 62 are associated with known confluences. 
The “map” of new cases
– 22 cases during the controls carried out at the country’s entry gates
– 4 imported cases that came voluntarily for control
464 cases in the Attica region, of which 6 are associated with known outbreaks
839 cases in PE Thessaloniki, of which 11 are associated with known confluence, while 260 cases are associated with EODY sampling
2 cases in PE Etoloakarnania
1 case in PE Argolida
8 cases in PE From Arcadia
3 cases in PE Arta
9 cases in PE from acaya
4 cases in PE Βοιωτίας
54 cases in PE Drama, of which 3 are associated with known confluences
24 cases in PE Evros, of which 1 is associated with a known confluence
3 cases in PE De Evia
1 case in PE De ilia
21 cases in PE Imathia
14 cases in PE Heraklion
19 cases in PE Ioannina, of which 5 are associated with known confluences
27 cases in PE Kavala
21 cases in PE Karditsa, of which 3 are associated with a known confluence
9 cases in PE Kastoria
6 cases in PE Corfu
18 cases in PE Kilkis
20 cases in PE Kozani, of which 2 are associated with a known confluence
3 cases in PE Corinto
1 case in PE Laconia
70 cases in PE Larissa, of which 24 are associated with known confluences
2 cases in PE Lassithi
14 cases in PE Lesbos, of which 1 is associated with a known confluence
1 case in PE Lefkada
15 cases in PE Magnesia
8 cases in PE from messenia
31 cases in PE Xanthi
17 cases in PE Pella
25 cases in PE Pieria, of which 1 is associated with a known confluence
2 cases in PE Preveza
2 cases in PE from Rethymno
65 cases in PE Rodopi, of which 1 is associated with a known confluence
4 cases in PE Rhodes
82 cases in PE Serres, of which 1 is associated with a known confluence
8 cases in PE Trikala
2 cases in PE Fthiotida
5 cases in PE Florina
1 case in PE Φωκίδας
30 cases in PE from Halkidiki
8 cases in PE Chania
4 cases in PE Chios, 3 of which are connected by a known confluence
61 cases are under investigation.
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