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The possibility of lifting the coronavirus lockdown at the end of the month is ruled out, and Kyriakos Mitsotakis emphasized that government planning will depend on epidemiological data.
The data will be examined at the prime minister’s meeting on Friday with the infectious diseases committee and Mr. Kikilias, Hardalia.
The Prime Minister referred to the government’s next steps regarding the pandemic during the teleconference with the heads of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at noon, when he announced that all doctors in the country’s ICU will become indefinite.
Announcements for one-week coronavirus measures
Referring to the measures taken against the pandemic, Kyriakos Mitsotakis noted that the government will make announcements aboutnext week, but also how we will celebrate Christmas in the midst of a pandemic, having at your disposal a greater volume of epidemiological data.
“Our plans from now on They will not refer so much to dates but to specific data“which will judge our next steps,” the Prime Minister characteristically stressed.
Stabilization trends in coronavirus cases
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As Kyriakos Mitsotakis noted, there are now “the first signs of a reduction in the number of cases.” Specifically, 2,135 new cases were registered today in a large number of coronavirus tests, which exceeded (together with rapid tests) 30,000.
Another encouraging sign in the fight against the pandemic is that in the geographical distribution of the new cases, in addition to Athens and Thessaloniki, only one more region, that of Larissa, shows a triple-digit number of new infections.
So it seems that the positivity index is falling from double digits, a fact that shows that we may be in a de-escalation phase of the spread of the coronavirus. Experts also spoke of a clear stabilization trend during the briefing on the course of the coronavirus in the country on Monday afternoon.
Concerns about the number of intubated and new deaths
However, what still worries the experts and the government is the number of intubated, which continues to show increasing trends (565), but also the number of deaths, which once again was in the three digits (101).
Kyriakos Mitsotakis stressed that “we are in the most critical hours of the fight against the pandemic and I want this message to be heard everywhere today, especially in northern Greece.” However, the prime minister stressed that the NSS and its staff will continue to hold out, even though they have been operating “in the red” for weeks.
“The Intensive Care Units before the pandemic were 557, today we have developed 1,242 ICUs. The workforce of the National Health System before the pandemic was 88,690 employees, today they have exceeded 100,000. And of course, before the pandemic, to be precise in 2018, we spent around 3.8 billion on Health, and in 2020 we have spent 4.8 billion, “said Kyriakos Mitsotakis. “These are to restore order and truth,” he added.
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