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The new cases of coronavirus registered in the last 24 hours in Greece amount to 901, as announced today, Saturday, December 19, by the National Public Health Organization.
During the same period, there were 58 deaths, according to EODY data, compared with 96 on Friday.
534 patients are being treated by intubation (seven more than on Friday).
From January 1, 2020 to today, a total of 2,674,207 clinical samples (approximately 17,000 in the last 24 hours, number corresponding to Friday).
433,466 samples from EODY Health Units and Stairs performing Rapid Ag tests have been analyzed (approximately 15,000 in the last 24 hours, compared to 19,000 on Friday).
The EODY announcement
“Today we announce 901 new cases of the new virus in the country, of which 6 were detected after controls at the country’s gates. The total number of cases is 130,485, of which 52.5% are men.
5,196 (4.0%) are considered related to trips from abroad and 38050 (29.2%) are related to an already known case.
534 of our fellow citizens are being treated by intubation. Their average age is 66. 165 (30.9%) are women and the rest are men. 77.3% of intubated patients have an underlying disease or are 70 years or older. 797 patients have been discharged from the ICU.
Finally, we have 58 more registered deaths and 4102 deaths in total in the country. 1654 (40.3%) women and the rest men. The average age of our deceased fellow citizens was 79 years and 95.7% had some underlying disease and / or 70 years or more ”.
A government and expert bell for the holidays.
The possibility of easing restrictive measures was previously ruled out by government spokesman Stelios Petsas, even speaking of a case of tightening at the local level, following the example of West Attica and Kozani. “It is very important at the local level to intervene quickly and control possible outbreaks so that they do not get out of control,” he stressed.
Referring to the holidays Mr. Petsas pointed out that the important thing is to have a closed circle and “not open our contacts”. “Let’s try to make our contacts the same people,” he characteristically noted, speaking to SKAI.
The rapid test embankment in the third wave
It is recalled that in the strategy of the health authorities against the pandemic, starting next Monday, random sampling of the population throughout the territory.
Yesterday, the EKPA Assistant Professor of Medicine, and member of the Expert Committee, Gikas Majorkinis, presented the testing.gov.gr platform, through which citizens will be able to express their interest as of next Monday night to submit to rapid test for coronavirus.
They will complete their data in a special form (name, postal code of residence, age, state and mobile phone number), while the registration of the application will be done with a verification code that will be sent to your mobile phone, immediately after his presentation.
Universal lock in Kozani
On Friday, the Deputy Minister of Civil Protection, Nikos Hardalias, in the context of periodic information for the course of the pandemic in Greece, announced the implementation of the universal blockade in Kozani, in the standards of Elefsina, Aspropyrgos and Mandra.
He noted that the viral load in the Kozani Regional Unit is alarmingly high and that “the situation is critical, since there are 397 active cases with an average age of 53 years.”
More than 4,000 deaths since the start of the pandemic
It is remembered that yesterday new cases of coronavirus in the country amounted to 916, according to information from EODY. During the same period, 96 new deaths were recorded, with the total death toll since the start of the pandemic was 4,044. 527 patients were intubated on Friday.
