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With the announcement of the extension of the shutdown for at least a week, everyone’s attention has turned to next week, where the government has postponed announcements about the lifting of restrictive measures.
In fact, perhaps we should no longer speak of removing the confinement, but of its “relaxation”, which will be accompanied by strict criteria with the sole purpose of avoiding a third wave.
All the most current information on what will be valid at Christmas shows that … a new code will enter our lives in 13033. It will be the 7 that will refer to the movement in the stores but also to the extension of their hours.
All this because the cases may show a drop, however this is not the expected data of the 3 weeks of the confinement, since the deadly virus is still testing the resistance of our country. Specifically, EODY announced on Friday 2,013 new cases, while the deaths once again exceeded 100, reaching 607 intubated.
According to information from MEGA, the government does not seem to be in favor of a relaxation scenario, not even a local closure, since the main objective continues to be to reduce the epidemiological burden throughout the country, since the spread of the virus is universal in many areas. “They boil.”
Scientists are especially concerned about the aggressive development of the pandemic in northern Greece and reject any idea of a hasty lifting of the measures in force.
Anyway, the second general ban has already obtained the first extension for December 7 with the Christmas bet showing for the moment that it is lost, as it was lost last Easter … 
“Yes” in horizontal opening, “no” in local blocking
It also remains questionable whether there will be a two-speed opening, based on geographic criteria, something the government does not want, however Commerce Secretary General Panagiotis Stampoulidis did not rule it out.
The government seems to favor horizontal opening, although there may be additional exceptions or restrictions for certain areas.
“We cannot see at this time, different speeds to lift the blockade between Regions. We do not have any suggestions from the experts,” said Stelios Petsas today, speaking of the possibility of lifting the closure.
“It is necessary to eliminate the epidemiological burden throughout the country. If we see next week that there are different outbreaks in different geographical areas, this will be suggested to us by epidemiologists. But we are not there.” Neither has such a thing been considered, “he said. . 
The numbers bring a slower relaxation of the measures.
The figures from the analysis show that the government is leading a slower relaxation process. For example, the epidemiological burden is particularly high in 18 areas of the country out of a total of 74.
Indeed, Ms Papaevangelou was disgusted that it “does not say that the second wave should go away” and added that the reduction in cases is slower than the committee wanted, while in other areas they are increasing.
“The curve is decreasing, but the epidemiological burden remains high. Currently there are more than 25,000 active cases in the country. Today, around 4,500 patients are being treated throughout the country, of which 1/4 are in Thessaloniki” , he clarified.
Epidemiologists and consequently the government were waiting for more information to proceed with lifting the blockade. The final plan will be judged by the two factors now known which are the number of cases and the pressure on the SEN.
The truth is that next week we will have the new announcements from the government about what will happen at Christmas, most likely through the Prime Minister.
Apart from the schools that, except for drastic changes, will open on December 7, we also bet on a different model both in terms of our movement and the opening of a store.
The latest information speaks of a new number that will be added to the existing ones for travel, most likely number 7 and will be related to the move to a retail store. At the same time, there will be an extension of business hours.
The “two-speed” lockout scenario
However, previously the professor of Microbiology at the University of West Attica and member of the Expert Committee, Alkiviadis Vatopoulos, had left open the possibility of lifting the closure by region.
Vatopoulos noted that the problem with the spread of the coronavirus has moved to the province. Therefore, he did not rule out the possibility that during the phasing out of restrictive measures, some areas may be blocked and others not.
“The Ro index has started to be below unity in Athens and perhaps Thessaloniki, but it is above 1 in some provincial cities, mainly in central and northern Greece.”
“The problem is beginning to move to the province.” The inhabitants of a small town or village should not feel that the issue does not concern them, “he said characteristically.
Mosialos: “The whole country should not be opened together”
The two-speed blockade was also promoted by Elías Mosialos, speaking of the next stage of lifting the measures.
The LSE professor explained why the country should not open up as a whole and presented the six indicators on which the experts rely to make their decisions to lift the blockade.
The six indicators are:
- The first is the rate of increase and decrease in cases.
- The second is whether the number of cases in vulnerable social groups is decreasing
- The third is hospital admissions.
- The fourth indicator is the number of deaths
- The fifth indicator that we do not have in our country is how many are trapped in each region of Greece. This is achieved by random sampling
- The sixth is what you want to open first.
Regarding the confinement, Elías Mosialos stated that removal must be done on a case-by-case basis.
“The whole country should not open together, that is, the north and the south of Greece at the same time. I had to open it to do it again in zones.” Now, whether it be two or three, the experts will judge it based on the data statistics “, stressed the professor of Health Policy, Elías Mosialos, in statements to SKAI.
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