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Information from the Ministry of Health on the coronavirus is ongoing, which will take place every Monday, Wednesday and Friday from today.
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The Vice Minister of Civil Protection and Crisis Management participates in the information session Nikos Hardals, the Undersecretary of Health Vassilis Kontozamanis, the assistant professor of the EKPA School of Medicine and member of the Expert Committee Gikas Majorkinis and Professor of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the EKPA Faculty of Medicine and “Attikon” General Hospital and member of the Expert Committee, Vana Papaevangelou.
41 deaths in a 24-hour period from coronavirus
The Professor of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Vana Papaevangelou, gave a first image of the image of the pandemic in the last 24 hours.
As he said, 1,490 new cases of coronavirus were confirmed, while the number of intubated in the country reached 239. Finally, the death toll in twenty-four hours rose to 41, the highest figure since the start of the pandemic.
Mrs. Papaevangelou pointed out that in the face of this epidemiological situation, the confinement was considered necessary in our country. “Most of us have a laid-back attitude when it comes to painting a picture of ourselves.” We can’t classify our contacts today as high or low risk. “
The difference between the second and the first lock
“We have kept primary education open, but the main difference is that our entire society is tired. “We have a difficult winter ahead, where it is possible that we will have a further increase in cases after the measures are lifted,” said the infectious diseases specialist on the differences between the first and second lockdown.
“It must be emphasized that the epidemiological burden of Attica is very high and in no case would we want to see an increase in cases in the province,” Papaevangelou said of Athenians who chose to leave Attica before the shutdown. “I do not harm those who went to the field,” Ms. Papaevangelou noted, but called on those who did “to show responsibility.”
Papaevangelou called on citizens not to neglect their health
The pediatrician specializing in infectious diseases also pointed out that “clinics and hospitals are safe and citizens with chronic diseases or not should not neglect their health. “As a pediatrician, I urge parents to visit pediatricians for the necessary follow-up of their children.”
We are expected to see a decrease in cases in the coming days, said Ms Papaevangelou, noting that “already today (the number of cases) was reduced in Thessaloniki, of course it was Monday.” However, the infectious disease specialist stressed that “we do not expect immediate results in terms of intubated patients. This is because the duration of hospitalization is on average 2 weeks.” Unfortunately, we expect a continuous increase in ICU patients in the following days”.
Majorkinis: “Pfizer vaccine lights up in coronavirus pandemic tunnel”
The epidemic in Greece maintains the pattern of dynamic exponential growth and advances to levels above 2,000 daily diagnoses with the greatest burden for the north of the country and similar pressure on the health system, he said during the briefing on the evolution of the pandemic. Majorkinis. He added that the gap between groups 19-39 and 40-65 has closed and yesterday they showed the same effect after almost a month, that is, about 400 new diagnoses per population. Ages 1 to 18 remain stable, while those over 65 show a small relative increase.
The covid-19 pandemic is getting worse around the world, with more than 600,000 diagnoses recorded in one day, the professor said. In Europe, the epidemic is at its highest point since the start of the pandemic, having exceeded 12 million diagnoses and the number of new diagnoses remains at more than 300,000 per day, with more than 3,000 people per day. Most of the new diagnoses were registered yesterday in France – 39 thousand diagnoses, in Italy – 33 thousand diagnoses, in Poland – 25 thousand diagnoses and in the United Kingdom – 21 thousand diagnoses, Majorkinis said.
Many countries have taken strict restraint measures and have proceeded to closures or traffic bans. As an indication, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Portugal, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic apply such measures.
Majorkinis: “Encouraging Vaccine News”
Majorkinis referred to today’s announcements about the Covid-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and Biontech, which appears to be 90% effective in protecting against Covid-19, based on the results of large-scale clinical trials of Covid-19. Phase 3 in progress, which is the last phase before the permit application. The company said it intends to apply for urgent approval from the FDA after the third week of November.
“The news is very encouraging, but the challenges we face are still enormous and we have a long way to go,” he said. He added that the vaccine announcements “give us a light in the tunnel of the pandemic, but we must not forget that the epidemic has explosive potential and in a short time can drastically change the epidemiological situation.” “It is extremely important that we arm ourselves patiently until we get vaccinated.” “The return to normalcy will not happen overnight.” And we still have a long way to go, “Majorkinis concluded.
It is clarified that every Wednesday the Minister of Health Vassilis Kikilias will report on the state of the National Health System.
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