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OR Panagiotis Gargalianos, Specialist in Infectious Diseases, President of the Hellenic Infection Society He 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.
“We had to apply the mask everywhere before”
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 unanimously we will reach cases that we had not imagined. If exponential growth continues, 2,000 boxes is easy to make 4,000 boxes. And this is not terror, but reality “, he stressed.
“We can see an increase in cases in the coming days.”
It is no coincidence that Charalambos Gogos, A member of the Committee on Infectious Diseases stated that Compliance with the measures, announced on Saturday, the prime minister will consider 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 we may see an increase in cases in the coming days, as it was verified 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 compared to the European average with ten times more victims and cases than the big 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 the numbers of cases can reach up to 3000, and above, 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.
“Forecasts for coronavirus cases are moving faster than expected, we will have an escalation than it seems, the numbers show the same. The number will continue to increase. I hope to go wrong in this assessment, but it will continue to rise, ”commented Athanasios Exadaktylos, speaking on Saturday night on Ant1.
Characteristic of the pressure that the NSS receives in the middle of a pandemic is the complaint of the Panhellenic Federation of Public Hospital Employees (POEDIN), according to which in the hospitals of Ioannina there are no empty beds and patients are admitted to other hospitals Epirus.
A special emergency plan is being implemented in Thessaloniki by order of the Minister of Health Vassilis Kikilias.
In one last attempt to stop the pandemic before closing Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced A series of new measures take effect in the early hours of Tuesday.
The new landscape formed in the country since Tuesday and for a month in general it provides:
- Mandatory use of mask everywhere.
- Traffic restriction from midnight to five in the morning.
- Ban on boarding public transport without a mask.
- Mandatory teleworking at least 50% in the public and private sectors.
- Mandatory distance learning in universities.
- Suspension of visits in all welfare structures.
- Open to all retailers and wholesalers, as well as the industry. Open schools. Outdoor archaeological sites are open. Hotels and hair salons are open.
Health safety map
Also, the Health Insurance Charter is changing and now has 2 levels out of the 4 previously provided.
Level 1 (green) and level 2 (yellow) merge into “Level A ‘- vigilance (yellow)” and levels 3 (orange) and 4 (red) merge into “Level B’ – higher risk (red). ) respectively ‘.
Thus, the ranking of the 74 Regional Units of the country, according to the Infectious Diseases Committee responsible for the Charter, is made up of Tuesday, November 3 and for 14 days as follows:
At “A-level watch (yellow)»The following 47 Regional Units are classified:
Etoloakarnania, Andros, Argolida, Arcadia, Arta, Achaia, Grevena, Evia, Evritania, Zakynthos, Ilia, Heraklion, Thassos, Thesprotia, Ithaca, Ikaria, Kalymnos, Kardia, Karpas, Karpas, Karpas, Karpas, Karpas Kos, Laconia, Lassith , Lesbos, Lefkada, Lemnos, Magnesia, Messinia, Milos, Mykonos, Attica Islands (except Salamina), Paros, Preveza, Rethymno, Rhodes, Samos, Sporades, Syros, Tinos, Fino, Fthori, Chania, Chios.
At “Level B’-Increased Risk (red)»The other 27 Regional Units are classified:
All regional units of Attica and Piraeus, except the islands, Boeotia, Drama, Evros, Imathia, Thessaloniki, Thira, Ioannina, Kavala, Kastoria, Kilkis, Kozani, Larissa, Naxos (except Amorgos), Xanthi, Rodopi, Serres, Trikala, Halkidiki.
