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All the “tools” at your fingertips, until vaccination begins and the percentage necessary to consider to consider that the population’s immunity has been achieved, is activated by the government, in order to limit the spread of the new virus as much as possible. coronavirus. and the consequences of the pandemic in the country.
The implementation of “hard” local closures, with additional measures such as West Attica and Kozani, is a crucial “tool” in the hands of the government, to limit the spread to areas that, as evidenced by the number of new cases and hospital admissions, do not they seem to adapt sufficiently to the new reality. The implementation of the new measure began on Thursday in areas of West Attica (Aspropyrgos, Mandra and Elefsina), while on Friday The Vice Minister of Civil Protection, Nikos Hardalias, announced a “hard” shutdown in the Kozani area.
In the immediate future, perhaps on Saturday on the occasion of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s visit to northern Greece, there may be announcements of a “tougher” shutdown in other areas.
The extension of local lockdown measures is not the only government “tool” in the “war” against the pandemic and the spread of the new coronavirus. Massive rapid testing on random “pieces” of the population adds to the “quiver” of experts. Sotiris Tsiodras and his associates, in collaboration with EODY and the rest of the services involved in the process, will have the opportunity to capture in a much more specific way the size of the spread of the new coronavirus in the population and especially the percentage of asymptomatic patients, who do – unknowingly – the most “insidious” and dangerous job.
Professor Gika Majorkin’s announcements about the rapid test plan Through requests for participation in the testing.gov.gr platform, it is an extremely important tool to record the level of spread, since through the data that will emerge, infectious disease specialists will have the opportunity to assess the situation with data more valid and realistic. Therefore, your suggestions to the government on the measures and tactics to follow will be more specific.
The Mass Rapid Test Plan and Participation Process
Mr. Majorkinis referred to the goal of 12 thousand tests, analyzed the procedure that each citizen must follow and mentioned as an exception those who present symptoms, who, according to him, should see their doctor.
More detail:
“We will introduce the new community randomization platform, a tool that will help us improve our epidemiological picture of the spread of the virus. Our strategy for free testing so far mainly includes those with Covid-19 symptoms, such as providers of medical care and health centers There is also a community inspection by EODY in the context of confluence detection, as well as preventive confluence inspections.
With the advent of valid random quick tests, we add free random checks to our strategy, with the goal of reaching 12,000 random tests., per day. The goal is to interrupt the chain of transmission, predict and detect asymptomatic spread.
For the implementation of the program, 386 points. The 260 examination points will be in the Health Centers. Another 98 exam points will be available in the medical units of the Armed Forces. And there will probably be 18 points in the health units of the National Health Organization.
It will be available on Monday night (12/21) the testing.gov.gr platform and the first 12,000 will be notified on Saturday, December 26. On Monday, December 28, the first 12,000 will be notified of the point and time of arrival.
It concerns everyone, with one specific exception. If you have symptoms, you should contact your doctor. It does not guarantee because the test is random and it is possible that you will not be selected or that the selection will not take place during the course of the disease. The correct way to get tested for free is through your doctor, health centers or hospitals.
The process will start through the online platform testing.cov.gr. In the application we will have details such as name, age, zip code, state, occupation, and of course mobile number. You will then receive a message with a verification code, which you will need to complete in your application to complete the process. You will then see on the screen that your app has been hacked. If selected, a new message will arrive when and where a few days later. The selected citizens will receive a new sms, with a unique code, which in no case should be shared with others, through which they can appear at a specific time and place.
Attendance at the test will justify a three-hour absence from work and once the process is completed, personal data will be deleted.
” Breaks ” 4,000 Death Barrier – Fewer than 1,000 New Cases Friday
EODY’s report on Friday gave a good element. Reduce new daily cases below 1000. More specifically, 916 new cases were announced, which is extremely promising, as for the first time in a long time a triple-digit number of new cases was recorded on a “normal” day (also a three-digit number was recorded over the weekend, but due to a reduced number of tests).
However, the number of deaths fluctuated at high levels, with another 96 of our fellow citizens ending up with the deadly virus, while the decline in the number of intubated (527) continued, but at the same slow pace that it developed over the previous period. .
In total in Greece, since the start of the pandemic, 4,044 people have lost their lives due to Covid-19 and while the country is in the middle of the second wave of the spread of the new coronavirus.
The cases, although small in number, still affect almost all parts of the country, showing that the spread is widespread and outbreaks of infection still exist and pose very serious risks of a new relapse.
The geographical distribution follows in detail:
Attica 262
Thessaloniki 186
Etoloakarnania 17
Argolide 1
Arcadia 1
Arta 2
Achaia 9
Βοιωτίας 12
Grevena 4
Drama 8
Evros 25
Evia 5
Evritania 2
Ilia 1
Imathias 11
Tasos 1
Ioannina 2
Kavala 18
Karditsa 18
Kastoria 1
Kilkis 9
Kozani 37
Corinth 10
Laconia 10
Larissa 39
Lesbos 23
Lefkada 2
Magnesia 46
Messinia 2
Islands 3
Xanthi 26
Pella 16
Pieria 34
Preveza 1
Rethymnon 2
Rodopi 14
Rhodes 2
Serres 28
Trikala 3
Phthiotide 4
Florina 4
Halkidiki 5
Chania 2
Chios 7
Under investigation 6
The distribution of 904 new domestic cases by Regional Unit is presented in the following table:
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