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Significant investment indicated in the recommendations of the Committee on Infectious Diseases for the “blocking” of inter-municipal movements in Achaia, Kozani and Thessaloniki. Late on Friday night it became known that the government was accepting beyond the closing of Retail sale and the prohibition of such movements, finally Civil Protection in a new announcement clarified that the measures in the three specific areas will only affect the Retail sale.
Next, the inter-municipal movements in the regional units of Thessaloniki, Kozani and Achaia, it will eventually be free, while retail will be prohibited for these areas until April 12.
The Civil Protection announcement is as follows:
After an extraordinary meeting of the National Committee for the Protection of Public Health against the Covid-19 coronavirus that took place yesterday, Friday, April 2 and taking into account the particularly worrying epidemiological picture presented by the Regional Units of Thessaloniki, Kozani and Acaya, It was decided suspend the operation. on Monday April 5 in these three PEs and until Monday April 12 ”.
On the other hand, the new measures announced by the government reflect the key priority of not affecting the fragile balance of even the sensible relaxation measures taken to restore the effectiveness of the measures. The goal, as the Prime Minister stressed, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, during yesterday’s debate in Parliament is, “arrive at Easter safer and freer in summer.”
Alarm for Thessaloniki
The alarm for the peripheral units that will not follow the rest of the areas in the first phase of the activity updates was signaled with greater intensity as of Friday afternoon. The data presented during the standard briefing heralded the direction in which the experts would point.
According to the Vice Minister of Civil Protection and Crisis Management, Nikos Hardalia in the Regional Unit Thessaloniki, there are 6,971 active and potentially potential cases. Active cases in the municipality of Thessaloniki have increased by 45.69% in the last ten days.
This increase is observed to include the other Municipalities of the Regional Unit. In the last ten days, active cases increased by 38.73% in the Municipality of Delta, 67.78% in the Municipality of Thermaikos, 64.36% in the Municipality of Lagada, 43.95% in the Municipality of Kordelio- Evosmos and 335% in the Municipality of Chalkidona.
The epidemiological outlook in the Regional Unit is also bleak Kozani in which there are 1,458 active and possible cases, that is, people who have come into contact with a confirmed case and present clinical symptoms. Indicative of the escalation is the sampling recording of EODY at Siatista, Kozani, with the positivity index reaching an unreal 13.2%.
The triptych of concern is completed with Acaya. From the day the Peripheral Unit entered the very high risk level, intense red, until today, the active cases, instead of decreasing, have increased with an increase of 46.89%. It is characteristic that on January 11, Acaya had 113 active cases, while today it has 1,062.
At the territorial level, the epidemiological burden remains heavy. Despite the relative stabilization in the total number of cases, it remains at a high level, after 19,000 new cases were identified in the last week, while the positivity rate remains high at 6.8%. The total number of active cases diagnosed in the territory is about 27,000 cases, half of which are in Attica.
The positive dimension arm reinforces the data from the vaccination campaign. There is a decrease in cases and intubations in adults older than 75 years, but also in the age group 60 to 64 years, in less than two months since the start of vaccination coverage of the last age group.
Another stabilization of the pandemic is registered in southern Greece.
Focus and supralocal movements
At the same time, the prime minister’s signal from the podium of Parliament identified for the first time the milestone in which the reopening of its approximately 75,000 stores stands. focus.
Referring to the sector’s business support program, the Prime Minister noted: And its pilot program focus right there it stretches. When the focus is on, and I guess the focus will be on after easter, taking into account epidemiological data – that entrepreneurs have had time to prepare, have bought the raw Materials, so that they do not have problems with working capital so that they can reopen quickly and serve their customers “
In any case, according to government sources CNN Greece, this phrase from Kyriakou Mitsotaki He does not rule out the framework that will be formed this Easter, especially by supralocal movements.
Asked last Thursday by CNN Greece the government spokesman, Aristotle Peloni, for the deadline that the committee of experts will ask to examine the issue and present its proposal, he had underlined: “We have just had new adjustments. It is still too early. As you know, the committee meets every week, that’s where the data is evaluated. “It’s still too early to talk about this,” Peloni said.
Intermunicipal are allowed in Athens.
As of today, however, the pilot opening of inter-municipal movements for personal exercise with an outdoor vehicle, by sending an SMS to number 6. Based on the new framework, up to three people or a family will be covered and with a strong recommendation to avoid massive configuration.
The prime minister’s warning is clear: “More freedom means more responsibility. We should not see crowds, neither in the squares, nor on the beach, since we allow inter-municipal movements. In the same way that restrictions were reduced, if we encounter phenomena from overcrowding, restrictions may return, ”said Mr. Mitsotakis.
