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At a time when hospitals are experiencing the biggest nightmare in modern history, the government is preparing for a temporary easing of measures. ● On Saturday he is considering lifting the intercity travel ban and opening shops and schools starting Monday.
At the worst and most critical turning point of the pandemic and despite the absolute asphyxia in hospitals, the government insists on the immediate opening of economic and social activities, thus sending a message of greater relaxation to the public. And in order to continue with this, it does two things:
- to) He bets everything on the precarious method of self-tests and thus prepares himself again to blame through the “individual responsibility” of a new failure in the management of the pandemic to the citizens.
- B) To legitimize its own decisions, it tries again to use the Committee of Experts of the Ministry of Health, which, although it did not give the green light to open last Friday, is forced to meet again in the middle of the week – tomorrow. , Wednesday – under this pressure. To make different decisions.
So what is the government planning? What are you planning to open and when, pushing for the green light from the experts? According to information, the first thing he thinks about is the opening of inter-municipal movements starting this Saturday. The second, of course, is the retail trade (the government is known to “burn” for the opening of the market, in contrast to the Commission that favors education) and is considering opening next Monday, April 5.
And the third is the opening of schools within the same week as the retail trade, with priority in Lyceums and Gyms. In explaining this priority, Niki Kerameos stated (MEGA) that “these [Λύκεια και Γυμνάσια] they have been closed for a longer period of time “, in addition to” we also have upcoming exams, so there is a special concern, I would say, for the Liceos first and the Gymnasiums. mid April.
“The economy must function again, productive economic activity must be launched, education must be reactivated, children must return to schools in a safe and controlled manner,” said Deputy Prime Minister Akis Skertsos (ERT, 28.3.2021), sending thus a clear message to the experts, at a time when this bra de fer of the government committee is in full swing. “Everyone is under pressure and everyone is looking for a breath of freedom.
That is why the government has presented a new strategic framework to the Commission. “And with the complementary tool of self-tests, the Commission will examine the data,” said (Ant1) government representative Aristotle Peloni. But also the Minister of Health, Vassilis Kikilias, although he said that “the first priority is Public Health” and that “it is an insidious virus” that “makes things difficult and we accept enormous pressure on the NSS”, he also followed the Line of the central government, saying that “the time has come, with a constant rhythm and separating one meter from the other, to help all social groups to be able to reopen slowly.”
But since the country to date, under the exclusive responsibility of the government, does not have the epidemiological preparation (surveillance, tracking, armored NSS and Primary Health Care) to face the successive waves of the virus, nor the necessary measures (for example, workplace, MMM) to ensure that the opening does not compromise the arrival of a fourth wave before the third is extinguished, the Commission does not agree with the climate created by the government for the urgent opening of activities , but not for substantial grants from the NSS. Talking to “Ef.Syn”. The members of the Commission emphasize that everyone must take responsibility for their own decisions, recalling that experts suggest measures that arise for medical or public health reasons. From a medical point of view, they add, it is extremely important to start open education.
Looking at hospitals and their colleagues on the front line who have knelt, but also at the peak of the most serious unprecedented third epidemic wave, Commission scientists say they will first study the data and make a decision based on them, avoiding responsibility that the government is systematically trying to lash out at them.
The “rescue” self-tests (which were added to the equally “rescue” vaccines, but which flow slowly) on which the new government narrative of “safe opening” has been based and the concerns that accompany them have been publicly discussed by the Elliniki Society of Biopathology (EIBEI), the country’s representative for the coronavirus, Professor Elias Mosialos, but also at the international level the WHO and the ECDC regarding its sensitivity, which according to the manufacturers is> 99%, while it is known to be less than 40% in asymptomatic, presymptomatic, and low viral load people.
And all this while continuing the uncontrollable course of the pandemic in the country. Yesterday’s EODY records, despite being low (1,724 new diagnoses) due to the weekend, refer to a very small number of tests (15,607), with the positivity index jumping again to unsafe levels for the 11 surveillance. , 05%. In addition, 65 deaths were recorded, while intubations continue the series of negative records since the start of the pandemic for thirteen days, with 738 intubated in the country’s ICU. Outside the ICU, but 64 intubated patients are treated with Covid and 40 with other diseases, a total of 104 on the waiting list for ICU beds at the EKAB.
