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THE ΕΟΔΥ announced today, wednesday, 1,677 news cases of coronavirus in the country, of which 13 They were found after checks at the gates of the country. The total number of cases is 118,045, of which 52.7% men.
Of the total cases, 5,038 (4.2%) are considered related to travel from abroad and 33,160 (27.7%) are related to an already known case.
At the same time, 578 Our fellow citizens are being treated intubated. Their average age is 66. 172 (29.8%) are women and the rest are men. 75.8% of intubated patients have an underlying disease or are 70 years or older. 691 the patients have been discharged from the ICU.
Finally, we have 95 deaths are still recorded and 3,289 deaths in the country as a whole. 1,312 (39.9%) women and the rest men. The mean age of our dying fellow citizens was 79 years and 96.2% had an underlying disease and / or were 70 years or older.
In the following days the announcements for retail and travel
In the next three days, the government will announce its decisions on a possible relaxation of measures related to economic and social activities.
In a radio interview Wednesday, the government spokesman Stelios PetsasHe pointed out that although there is a decrease in cases and hospitalizations, it is not considered satisfactory.
“The improvement is slow and this has delayed the opening of activities and may delay even more.”
Mr. Petsas repeated that no school will open until January 7, recreation or skiing and there will be no possibility of moving from prefecture to prefecture, with specific exceptions, adding that there is no suggestion to differentiate the measures at the regional level.
The government spokesman stressed that there will be an extension of traffic hours to facilitate retail stores. He also said that a solution is being sought for the holidays, in order to move people for as long as is allowed, and recalled that celebrations in houses should be up to nine people.
Regarding the functioning of the churches, Mr. Petsas said that yesterday Tuesday there was a good discussion between the Prime Minister and Archbishop Ieronymos and he estimated that we are close to finding a golden section.
It also left open the possibility that the quarantine from 10 days that has been put to the Greeks who come from abroad to Holidays in Greece.