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With a background -black- of the 199 deaths from coronavirus in November, of which 41 were registered in the last 24 hours, the 5,960 cases in the last three days as the almost 1,000 new admissions of patients with Covid-19 infection in hospitals across the country at the same time, our country is going through the third day of the “closure” to face the epidemic. Experts are anxiously watching the development of the epidemic and, in fact, have their eyes set on the next 10-15 day period, when they estimate that the peak will be noticed, that is, the peak of the epidemic wave.
As they explained today during the briefing at the Ministry of Health the Professor of Pediatrics – Infectious Diseases of the Athens Medical Faculty, Ms. Vana Papaevangelou that from now on it will participate in the two periodic updates, every Monday and Friday, and the assistant professor of epidemiology, Mr. Gikas Majorkinis, the peak of cases is likely in the next two weeks, highlighting, however, that it is an assessment, that it is carried out in advance and that it will depend a lot on the behavior of the citizens, that is, their compliance with the measures and sanitary standards. “We estimate that in about 15 days there will be a decrease in new cases. Initially, the reduction will be seen by Thessaloniki Y Serres“The areas that were very overloaded and were quarantined first,” Ms. Papaevangelou said during her introductory speech.
The two experts also clarified that the peak of cases does not coincide in time with the peak of admissions in hospitals. On the contrary, from one peak of cases to another peak of imports it will take 10-15 days. It is the period between which new infections will lead to the manifestation of symptoms and disease, and the disease will worsen and will require hospitalization of approximately 15% of those who are positive for the coronavirus.
“Today there are between 240 and 250 admissions of patients with infection COVID-19 daily in hospitals. We estimate that this number will increase as cases increase and will begin to decrease after the implementation of the measures, ”said Ms. Papaevangelou.
However, he stressed that in the next 2-3 weeks the ICU will be under a lot of pressure due to the admission of patients. “We expect a continued increase in ICUs.” Patients will be added, “said the Professor of Pediatrics-Infectious Diseases.
High viral load in Attica
Today’s negative leaders in the daily number of cases has Thessaloniki with 413 new cases of coronary artery, out of a total of 1,490. However, the small number of cases and the total and especially from Thessaloniki, is not considered to reflect the real picture, on the contrary, as the experts commented, it is low due to … day. This is because every Monday the number of new diagnoses shows the number of tests that are usually done on Saturdays or Sundays when the number of citizens that are controlled is less and the laboratories that are in operation are fewer.
Attica counts 390 new positive diagnoses of coronavirus, with experts clarifying that the basin appears to be in a milder condition, compared to the congested areas of Macedonia.
The low number of cases is found in all parts of the country. Indicatively, the Larissa – notably the city hospitals are already treating 80 patients and are constantly opening new beds for the coronavirus by blocking beds in other departments – registered 63 new cases. Serres remains in the red with 49 new cases, while Evros and Kavala count 54 and 34 new cases respectively. 67 patients with coronavirus are already being treated at the Alexandroupolis hospital.
The cases bear witness to a high epidemiological burden in Imathia (46), Pella (35), Pieria (15), Magnesia (27).
Finally, it is worth highlighting the epidemiological “appearance” in the relevant map of Florina with 29 cases and Fokida with 14 cases, since both areas have remained in the lowest positions in the relative ranking of the most affected areas of the country.
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