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With the Intensive Care Units under a lot of pressure and the daily reports of cases and deaths are not limited to the desired degree, experts emphasize that the next and third week of the confinement will be catalytic importance.
Yesterday friday they were recorded 72 more deaths, the highest number since the outbreak of the pandemic in the country, while the number of patients in the ICU amounts to 519, increasing by 20 compared to Thursday, according to EODY.
«The epidemiological burden has not been reducedEspecially in northern Greece, highlighted during the periodic briefing on the evolution of the pandemic in our country, the Deputy Minister of Civil Protection, Nikos Hardals. He noted that “new measures are needed at the gates of the land of the country.”
He reiterated that for those who enter the country, a PLF document and a PCR test are required up to 72 hours before, while now all those who enter enter a rapid test.
“We need a blockade of Wuhan”
the take stricter measures, corresponding to those obtained in Wuhan, by coronavirus inhibition suggested microbiology professor Alkiviadis Vatopoulos.
“The situation is very worrying. We expected last week that there would be a reduction, however the cases persist,” commented Mr. Vatopoulos.
As he said, a characteristic of the epidemic is spread of the virus, which has existed since August.
“That is why we need a stricter blockade, similar to that of China,” he said. “Businesses should close and we should operate every day as if it were Sunday. A Wuhan-style lockdown for two weeks could decongest the situation. “
More than 80% of bed capacity
More than 4,000 patients with coronavirus were admitted to the country’s public hospitals yesterday morning, of which more than 550 in intensive care units.
THE The occupancy of COVID intensive care beds is dangerously increasing throughout the territory, exceeding 80% yesterday.
“And next week will be difficult,” stressed yesterday the professor of Pediatric Infectious Diseases of the EKPA, member of the Committee of Experts of the Ministry of Health Vana Papaevangelou, in reference to the evolution of the pandemic in our country, while noting that the NSS will continue under pressure “for at least two more weeks.”
“Young people are also at risk”
The “pulp” due to the pressure that hospitals receive from patients with coronavirus is being heard by the pulmonologist and director of the VII Pulmonary Clinic of the “Sotiria” hospital, Gaga mine, noting that young people are also at risk of contracting the virus.
Speaking with “K”, he emphasizes that the virus does not discriminate, usually mentioning the case. of a 27-year-old boy who has been intubated at the Naval Hospital of Athens. “Patients come constantly, including young people,” he says.
