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Strict warning to the citizens of Thessaloniki to strictly observe the self-control and self-protection measures against the coronavirus, the EKPA Professor of Medicine and member of the Expert Committee directed this Monday, Gikas Majorkinis, emphasizing that “Thessaloniki has five times the burden of the epidemic compared to Athens».
In simple words, if Attica found itself in the Thessaloniki situation today, would have more than 2,200 diagnoses a day“, Underlined or Gikas Majorkinis.
Regarding the number of diagnoses and cases, he stressed that “there are signs of faster improvement compared to Attica, probably due to the fact that it is a smaller urban center, but also to the fact that strict measures were taken relatively earlier in Thessaloniki than in Attica. “
However, due to the great epidemic burden it has, the severity indicators will take a long time to improve and that is why it is necessary strict compliance with the measures to stabilize the situation. In Thessaloniki, there is no longer room to deviate from the strict measures that are already being implemented, ”Majorkinis added.
He reiterated his call to citizens for a strict restriction of social contacts in what is absolutely necessary and daily.
EODY: New “black” record with 400 intubated: 59 deaths, 2,198 new cases
The harsh panorama of the pandemic in the country is confirmed one more day by nightmarish data on the course of its spread coronavirus.
Today, Monday, November 16, EODY announced 2,198 news outbreaks of the new virus in the country, of which twenty-one They were found after checks at the gates of the country. The total number of cases is 76403, of which 53.9% are men.
Of the total number of cases, 4,675 (6.1%) are considered related to trips from abroad and 19,638 (25.7%) are related to an already known case.
400 Our fellow citizens are being treated by intubation. Their average age is 65. 126 (31.5%) are women and the rest are men. 79.5% of intubated patients have an underlying disease or are 70 years or older. 383 the patients have been discharged from the ICU.
Finally, we have 59 deaths are still recorded and 1165 deaths in the country as a whole. 473 (40.6%) women and the rest men. The mean age of our dying fellow citizens was 80 years and 97.2% had an underlying disease and / or were 70 years or older.
