Closed until carnival Monday

The possibility of ending the blockade, which is valid until March 8, as announced, is increasingly being eliminated. The reasons are the situation in which Attica finds itself but also the strong pressure that the NSS receives, with the greatest fear that it is culminating in the intubated and the increase in deaths.

The Undersecretary of Health, Zoe Rapti, in statements to SKAI, left open the possibility of extending the lockdown until Carnival Monday, saying that “this should bother us, but it worries us all, “The Church cannot do the police and the State is everywhere, it is a matter of collective and individual responsibility.”

However, he clarified that “on Friday the extension of the confinement will be judged.” “It seems that people are also tired, yesterday we saw images of crowds all over the waterfront, and not only, even weddings,” he said.

“We have not seen the top of the pandemic, on the contrary, we have an upward trend. “All citizens must comply with protection measures. We have been very close to vaccinating a large part of the population, to date we have more than 960,000 vaccinations,” he said.

“Our hospitals are under a lot of pressure at the moment, we have a difficult week ahead of us. Yesterday about 26,000 tests were carried out and we had a very large percentage in Attica, as well as in Thessaloniki, Achaia and many other cities. Attica has 569 cases, which means that the NSS will have a greater need for beds, “he said, noting that” we will add beds provided by the army to NIMTS, 120 beds (and ICU) for non-COVID cases, we will also cooperate with the private sector when necessary, to decongest hospitals, receive non-COVID and ICU cases nov COVID. NSS must and will strengthen daily. NSS hospitals provide more beds for COVID every day to comply with the system. “

“We are at the end of a difficult period. I calculate that if we all move along the line that we have a little more ahead of us until the vaccinations in vulnerable groups are completed, until we achieve immunity (of the herd) in a very large portion of the vulnerable population, this may end at the beginning of May, we can hope that we will come out of the last blockade, “said Ms Sastre.

“The mutated virus infects our fellow citizens faster. Today, citizens under the age of 50 are hospitalized,” he said.