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Greece will be in lockdown mode from 06:00 on Saturday, in a last-ditch effort by the government to reverse the exponential increase in cases in the country.
Kyriakos Mitsotakis, in today’s announcements, explained that the duration of the lockdown will be three weeks, until November 30. However, as was the case during the first shutdown, the curfew could well be extended from one to many more weeks.
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This, according to information from MEGA, is expected to be judged during the first week of implementation of the lockdown. As it reveals, if the cases stabilize next week near 3,000, then it is possible that the quarantine will end at the end of the month as announced.
On the other hand, if despite the confinement, the cases continue to increase and exceed 3,000 and even reach 5,000, the quarantine will be extended even after December 10.
In any case, at Maximou there are thoughts of opening schools in 10 days in case the cases stabilize.
Petsas: In how many cases will the blockade be lifted?
However, according to government spokesman Stelios Petsas, speaking to Alpha, the three-week scenario looks optimistic.
Speaking to Alpha, Mr. Petsas emphasized that to return to “a new kind of normal” cases must drop to 300-400 per day, while today we have almost 3,000.
Specifically, Mr. Petsas set himself a goal of eliminating the measurements of 300 to 400 boxes per day. Numbers that we have to see in the country since September.
This means that cases must be reduced by 2500 to remove the blockage!
More specifically, when asked if a low three-digit number, 300-400 cases per day, is required to remove the lock, he replied that “that’s why we go into quarantine, I think we’ll hit those numbers.”
He stressed that the decision was made because the epidemiological picture in Greece seemed like a “tsunami” that would be impossible to control, while he also pointed out that ICU beds are increasing in our country either with public resources or with alliances with the private sector.
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What scientists say
For their part, the scientists, referring to what will lead them to propose to the government to lift the blockade, are mainly positioned on the pressure that the NSS will receive.
Specifically, according to what the professor of Pneumology – Intensive Care at the University of Athens and member of the committee, Anastasia Kotanidou said, the end of the confinement will be proposed in case they see a decrease in the number of hospital admissions which reduces automatically admissions to previous ICUs. by 50% within these 3 weeks and cases drop below 1000.
At the same time, he pointed out that now with the confinement his hope is that they will prevent the spread of the virus and pressure on hospitals. “We hope that now with the strictest measures that will be implemented from Saturday, we will all comply and we will sit in our homes for a while without having secret parties, with masks everywhere and in 1 week we will be able to see a significant improvement in the situation” , said. .
He noted that the first thing they want to see from this blockade is the reduction in hospital admissions. In addition, he explained that what made everyone on the committee suggest a lockdown was the huge increase in patients in hospitals “that is, hospital admissions suddenly increased too much.” 
Finally, referring to the issue of the duration of the confinement, the associate professor of epidemiology and member of the committee for the coronavirus, Dimitris Paraskevi, told MEGA that this will depend on how much we want to drop the epidemiological burden on the community.
“But the objective is not to eliminate the virus in the community, but to reduce the spread and pressure on the health system,” he clarified.
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