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The government’s initial plan to eliminate it emergency shutdown of December 14 is canceled due to epidemiological data, since the second wave coronavirus It doesn’t backtrack fast enough so everything is fluid and the conversation about the opening freezes until further notice.
The issue of the pandemic is expected to be addressed today by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis during the cabinet meeting, which will be held by teleconference at 11 a.m.
On the table now is, in the best of cases, the scenario of December 21, while this Christmas it is clear that it will be different and even the possibility of holidays with a general or partial closure is open.
It also seems that the decision to maintain the obligation to send SMS to 13033 and during the holidays, as well as the traffic restriction in the afternoon, is key, which means that in fact we will do Christmas to some extent with some kind of quarantine.
What “burns” the government is to open the retail business before the holidays, to move the market, but without causing congestion. The goal is to open even small stores. But it all depends on whether the NSS has managed to decongest it. The point, however, is that experts say that for measures to be relaxed to begin with, cases must have dropped to 500 and intubations to double digits.
In the first phase, the extension of the lockdown after December 7 must be taken for granted, with all possibilities open as to when and how the uprising will finally begin.
But with the death toll increasing to an average of around 100 a day, November closes with more than 1,700 deaths and more than 600 intubations. This fact does not give rise to any optimism, despite the small decrease in cases, which is also due to the fact that fewer tests are actually performed due to the blockage. However, it is positive that, for the first time since the peak of the second wave, Thessaloniki has fewer cases than Attica. The problem, however, is that the positivity was 9.68% yesterday with an alarm limit of 4%.
The opening of schools also depends on the start date of the outing. If the gradual lifting of the lockdown begins on December 14, then the government will proceed with the opening of primary schools, which of course now means that they will not have opened on December 7 as was the original intention. But if, as is now possible, the easing of restrictive measures is postponed to December 21, it will make no sense for students to return to classrooms.
However, in crowded areas such as Thessaloniki, opening schools will lead to increased mobility. But for the sake of student equality, it is not possible to open schools in some parts of the country and remain closed in others. Also, the government is not geared towards lifting multi-speed locks.
Meanwhile, the questioning of the EODY data creates new political headaches in the government. Government spokesman Stelios Petsas yesterday denied reports that speak of parallel systems and a dual way of recording pandemic data, while EODY spoke of “morbid results.”
It is recalled, however, that News24 / 7 had repeatedly pointed out the flaws in the daily report.
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