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The details of its spread remain extremely worrying. coronavirus in the country, which is reflected in marginal condition of hospitals.
Were announced today 1,698 new cases of the new virus in the country, of which 25 were identified after checks at the country’s gates. The total number of cases is 74,205, of which 54.0% are men.
It is considered that 4,648 (6.3%) are related to trips from abroad and 19,081 (25.7%) are related to an already known case.
392 of our fellow citizens are treated intubatedj. His average age is 64 years. 121 (30.9%) are women and the rest are men. 78.8% of intubated patients have an underlying disease or are 70 years or older. 376 patients have been discharged from the ICU.
Finally, we have 71 more deaths recorded Y 1106 deaths generally in the country. 451 (40.8%) women and the rest men. The mean age of our dying fellow citizens was 80 years and 97.0% had some underlying disease and / or were 70 years or older.
To extend the confinement
And while the pressure on the country’s hospitals is suffocating, especially in North greece and the death toll continues to rise, with voices calling for the blockade to extend beyond 30ης November, thicken.
Saturday, the Vassilis Kikilias established the limit of 500 cases per day to lift the blockade in Greece by the coronavirus. “The lifting of the measures will be done gradually, carefully and with compliance with self-protection measures,” said the Minister of Health, noting: “If as of November 30 the cases have dropped below 500, then yes, we can open gradually that date. and do the basics, as normally as possible Christmas. “
On the same wavelength it moved on Sunday and Vice President of the National Public Health System, George Panagiotakopoulos, which left open the possibility of extending the blockade even after November 30.
Mr. Panagiotakopoulos highlighted that hospitals, especially in northern Greece, are found under intense pressure He added that “our reserves are running low but as a people we have shown that we have flexibility and ingenuity.”
“We are opening beds in closed clinics, in wards that are not used, while patients are transferred to other hospitals in nearby prefectures,” said the EODY vice president, speaking to the Sky radio station.
Only in the last hours at least 40 of our fellow citizens lost their lives in one of the reference hospitals in the whole country.
At the same time, dramatic appeal to track measurements in the crucial 10 days that follow, the scientists address. Cause the large increase in deaths and intubation in the last 24 hours. The picture of hospitalizations registered these days is a consequence of the epidemiological situation that prevailed two weeks ago.
The first encouraging facts from Thessaloniki
On the thirteenth day of quarantine, Thessaloniki is today, one week ahead of the rest of the country and the first positive signs of the severe restrictions are already visible, at least in terms of the course of the disease in the community.
The first positive sign refers growth rate of coronavirus cases. Based on data from the past six days, the course of the pandemic remains at elevated levels, but now it appears to be stabilizes.
