Action to be taken: the fears of the government and scientists for the next day

The countdown began as in a few hours the government will announce its decisions to lift the measures in Greece.

May 4 is the most critical date to lift the measures, but there are already many disagreements and fears.

The focus has been on schools in recent days, as this problem remains a major concern for scientists and parents alike.

School is a big thorn in the side

The information so far says that schools will be opened. First for the third Lyceum and then to open all schools in May.

However, the final decision for the schools has not been made, however, the picture will be clarified with tomorrow’s statements by Niki Kerameos, who will participate in the press conference established with Mr. Tsiodras and Mr. Hardalias.

Questions until then about when exactly they will open, as well as how many students will be in the classrooms and what the measurements will be, remain unanswered.

Concern about the images in the mortgage offices.

At the same time, the images that went through the Internet today are troubling, since on the first day of operation of the mortgage offices, the courts of first instance and the magistrates’ courts, queues and crowds were observed, while several citizens did not observe adequate safety distances.

It is reasonable, therefore, to ask whether such massive or even large-scale overcrowding will be avoided when more businesses are opened.

Bell of the Medical Association

However, before this overcrowding occurred, the Medical Association issued a statement urging citizens to continue to adhere to social distance measures and stay home, as there are indications that citizen compliance has declined in recent years. time.

Because the AUTh is back for the lifting of the measures on May 4

At the same time, the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki points out that the lifting of restrictive measures must be done with surgical movements, since the risk of the second epidemic wave lurks, especially in the summer.

According to AUTh’s research, lifting the measures in just one week could lead to the need to extend the restrictive measures for three weeks and increase the risk of an outbreak in August.

This conclusion emerged from the computational model for the crown measurement course developed by the Interdisciplinary Research and Innovation Center and the Environmental Engineering Laboratory of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in collaboration with three Italian universities.

In particular, the chief professor of chemical engineering at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Demosthenes Sarigiannis, explains that, according to the mathematical model, the safe date to start the gradual lifting of measures is May 11 and the final exit from the blockade could be set from July 11. and later

Losers of removal of measures.

However, from the beginning, both the government and scientists have made it clear that if there is a further escalation due to the lifting of the measures, then they will be re-evaluated and it is not ruled out that their power will cease and we will return to the appropriate measure. existed before.

A typical example of a country that did not fare well in the end was Germany.

In particular, the first signs of worsening of the coronavirus outbreak appeared in Germany, a week after it began easing restrictive measures.

The reproduction rate of covid-19 (reproduction rate), which is being closely monitored by authorities, has again reached 1, according to data published yesterday, Monday, by the Robert Koch Institute.

This means that each patient infects another person.

So far, the German government and virologists have emphasized how important it is for this rate to be less than 1. Since mid-April, this rate had gradually dropped to 0.7 before it started to rise again.

After all, the covid-19 death rate continues to increase day by day. According to the latest data from the institute, it is 3.8% for Germany, a percentage that is still lower than that registered in neighboring countries. To date, 156,337 cases and 5,913 deaths have been reported in Germany.

However, if this upward trend is confirmed, it can complicate efforts by the German authorities to gradually return to normal, at a time when public opinion seems to be anxious.