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Last week’s feature was the stabilization of the hardest indicators, that is, of the new intubations and daily deaths, indicated at the beginning of the briefing that Ms. Papaevangelou and added that the reduction of new cases continues every day so that now the average of the last 7 days of new cases is 1,500 new cases per day.
At the same time, he noted that we have approximately 320 new imports every day, explaining that two weeks ago we had 450 daily admissions.
“Furthermore, in the last week we had relatively fewer cases in our peers over 65, which is auspicious because we know that serious illness and death are associated with old age,” said the infectious disease specialist.
“All of this shows us that everyone’s efforts have paid off and that the restrictive measures that have harassed us have begun to bear fruit,” said the professor of medicine.
“The very slow, and even unexpected, reduction in the epidemiological burden has made us see the UCI in our country to force to make Christmas this year, ”Ms. Papaevangelou said, adding:“ With today’s course, we will have 300 intubated people on Christmas Day in the territory. “This will happen if we continue to see a relatively low number of cases.”
He then explained the two main reasons the commission was concerned and prevented us from recommending the lifting of the measures. These, as he said, are the following:
- The particularly high occupancy of ICUs to date. The occupancy of the covid ICU beds was 82% in the territory and 77% and 91%, respectively, in Attica and Thessaloniki.
- Large number of active cases in the country and especially in northern Greece. It is estimated that today we have more than 6,000 active cases in Central Macedonia
Comparing the epidemiological data we now have in relation to May 4, when the first blockade was lifted, Ms. Papaevangelou recalled that “we had a completely different epidemiological picture In our country. According to the Civil Protection data of that May 4, we had 982 active cases throughout the country compared to 12,500 today. At that time we had 280 patients nationwide compared to approximately 3,300 today and 35 intubated patients throughout Greece compared to 583 patients today. Finally, on May 4, EODY announced 2 deaths while today we had 102 deaths ”.
“In particular, Thessaloniki, which has been of special concern to us, on May 4 had only 1 intubated patient due to covid, while today we have 186 intubated patients,” added Ms Papaevangelou.
“Therefore, it is easy to understand that both the epidemiological picture and the integrity of the NSS are not comparable. The above data flagrantly prevents all of us from any relaxation,” stressed the infectious diseases specialist, adding that “we have no margin , we cannot risk a significant increase in cases. ” “I will return to the need to redefine our bubble.”
To conclude, he pointed out that the health system is still under pressure and at the same time synchronicity increases due to climatic conditions that force people to live more indoors.
Majorkinis: The charge remains in the north
Presenting the pandemic data on a global scale, EKPA Professor of Medicine Gikas Majorkinis pointed out that “the pandemic has already reached 71 million diagnoses of which 49.5 have recovered while active infections remain stable in about 20 million”.
In addition, regarding deaths worldwide “1.6 million of our peers have ended since the beginning of the pandemic”, while “The people who finish seem to have stabilized and he just a little below 12.5 thousand per day, “said Mr. Majorkinis, noting that” in Europe the pandemic shows signs of stabilization. “
Regarding the epidemic in Greece, Mr. Majorkinis stated that “according to the data published by EODY, the reduction in active cases continues for the third week as recorded by the reduction in the number of diagnoses at the national level.”
“This week the contraction seems to continue at the rate of last week and specifically in Attica the decrease in the number of diagnoses and this week remained at a rate of 8-10% compared to last week, while Thessaloniki accelerates the reduction in the number of new diagnoses, reaching up to a 30% reduction compared to the previous week ”, stressed the professor of the Faculty of Medicine.
“So Thessaloniki, due to the faster contraction of the epidemic, marks a few days in absolute numbers fewer diagnoses of those registered in Attica, but we must take into account that it still has a relatively higher number of diagnoses, “explained Mr. Majorkinis, adding that” Thessaloniki will be at the level that Attica is today when we see less than 80 diagnoses per day. “
“The burden of the epidemic in the north of the country remains, although it still shows small signs of decline,” said the member of the Committee of Experts, adding that in the south of the country “the epidemiological burden remains low.”
“The overall severity of newly diagnosed patients continued Downward trend and now it is at the levels it had in the first week of November, while the level of new diagnoses is close to a week ago, that is, at the levels of the last week of October “.
About levels of positivity, Majorkinis stated that “the percentage of positivity varies a lot from day to day and this is happening on a global scale. On weekends, for example, there are fewer tests around the world as a combination of the two. The main thing is that less patients are interested in testing and this results in fewer diagnostic labs, but also less time. However, the percentage of positive people is higher because patients most likely to be positive attend and urgent tests are prioritized , more suspicious ”.
Likewise, “it is very important that the exact way to calculate positivity is done with the sampling date, which in molecular tests can be from the same day to three days ago,” explained Mr. Majorkinis, adding that “for these reasons from the middle of next week the percentage of positivity will be announced by EODY for the previous sampling week.
Hardals: in the west of Red Attica
“This year Christmas will be different,” said the Deputy Minister of Civil Protection and Crisis Management Nikos Hardals and referred to decisions made on what will be applied in the near future with the opening of the retail, which was announced at noon on Friday.
The data leaves no room for complacency, he said and referred Extraordinary meeting carried out to assess the epidemiological situation in West Attica, where the active cases, as he said, amount to 392, with an average age of 42 years, while from the tracking 764 close contacts of the cases were located and they went into home isolation.
The measures are constantly being evaluated and adjusted accordingly, he said, adding that an improvement in the epidemiological picture may allow for greater openness.
102 deaths, 583 intubated, 1,395 new cases
Deaths are on the rise again, while the small fluctuations in the number of intubations and cases that picture their spread continue. coronavirus in the country.
Specifically, EODY announced 1,395 news outbreaks of the new virus in the country, of which 9 They were found after checks at the gates of the country. The total number of cases is 122,648, of which 52.6% are men.
5076 (4.1%) are considered related to trips from abroad and 34.774 (28.4%) are related to an already known case.
583 Our fellow citizens are being treated by intubation. Their average age is 66. 169 (29%) are women and the rest are men. 76.7% of intubated patients have an underlying disease or are 70 years or older. 711 the patients have been discharged from the ICU.
Finally, we have 102 deaths are still recorded and 3,472 deaths in the country as a whole. 1,392 (40.1%) women and the rest men. The average age of our deceased fellow citizens was 79 years and 96% had some underlying disease and / or were 70 years or older.
