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Experts are concerned about the risk of facing a new epidemic wave, which will enhance the holiday relaxation if several of the current restrictions are lifted in the coming weeks. “Opening suddenly is not possible, it will be too heavy for the Health System, we cannot bear it,” said Professor of Infectious Diseases Charalambos Gogos previously.
What are scientists afraid of? The risk of a sharp increase in cases due to a general opening of the economy during the festive period, which means that in the first weeks of 2021 the country will face a double battle. On the one hand, fighting for the vaccination of the first population groups and, on the other, having to stop a new wave, possibly even stronger, which will have caused the lifting of restrictions.
It’s like what Professor Manolis Dermitzakis said today, that we must get rid of the reduction in coronavirus cases before the vaccination process begins. “It is very important to have a very low circulation of the virus while vaccinating so that we can avoid the possibility of having a resistant strain, which will then prevail, which means that we will have to start over,” he said earlier today. Professor of Genetics at the Faculty of Medicine in Geneva, speaking to SKAI.
In any case, it is a common secret that until a significant part of the population is vaccinated, the course of the pandemic will fluctuate, so it is necessary to maintain the measures. Certainly in recent weeks there has been a clear decrease in the curve of the canyons compared to the previous period, while for the first time in a long time, today they fell below 1,000. On the other hand, the number of daily cases during the last seven days, not counting those of Sunday, moves on average to the level of 1,750 compared to about 1,950 of the immediately previous seven days.
The foregoing does not constitute complacency. “If current data does not improve significantly after December 15, even then we will not be able to continue with the open and we will have to wait to take very careful measures,” Ch. Gogos said.
Less than 1,000 cases after a while
A rift of optimism emerged from the number of cases announced by EODY on Sunday, as for the first time since late October, it fell below 1,000, of which 203 were located in Thessaloniki and 164 in Attica.
However, the death toll remained in the triple digits, as another 101 people died in the last 24 hours, meaning that the total number of human losses from the pandemic in Greece exceeded 3,000, reaching 3,003. At the same time, the people in the pipeline “reached” again 600, a figure that does not allow any complacency.
More specifically:
The new cases of coronavirus announced by EODY amount to 904, of which 203 were detected in Thessaloniki and 164 in Athens. At the same time, 101 patients lost their lives in the last 24 hours while 600 are the patients who are treated by intubation.
The total number of cases is 115,471, of which 52.8% are men.
The geographical distribution of the cases:
• 5 cases during the controls carried out at the country’s entry gates
• 164 cases in the Attica region
• 203 cases in PE Thessaloniki
• 17 cases in PE Etoloakarnania
• 3 cases in PE Argolida
• 2 cases in PE De Arcadia
• 1 case in PE Arta
• 8 cases in PE From acaya
• 13 cases in PE Βοιωτίας
• 4 cases in PE Grevena
• 27 cases in PE Drama
• 19 cases in PE Evros
• 3 cases in PE Evritania
• 4 cases in PE De ilia
• 13 cases in PE Imathia
• 11 cases in PE Heraklion
• 7 cases in PE Ioannina
• 18 cases in PE Kavala
• 32 cases in PE Karditsa
• 2 cases in PE Kastoria
• 1 case in PE Corfu
• 23 cases in PE Kilkis
• 44 cases in PE Kozani
• 3 cases in PE Corinto
• 63 cases in PE De Larissa
• 6 cases in PE Lesbos
• 18 cases in PE Magnesia
• 7 cases in PE from messinia
• 1 case in PE Naxos
• 12 cases in PE Xanthi
• 25 cases in PE Pella
• 49 cases in PE Pieria
• 1 case in PE Preveza
• 3 cases in PE from Rethymno
• 11 cases in PE Rodopi
• 3 cases in PE Rodas
• 30 cases in PE Serres
• 6 cases in PE Trikala
• 2 cases in PE Fthiotida
• 16 cases in PE Florina
• 13 cases in PE De Halkidiki
• 3 cases in PE Chania
• 5 cases in PE Chios
3 cases are under investigation.
In turn, 4,986 (4.3%) are considered related to trips from abroad and 30,594 (26.5%) are related to an already known case.
600 of our fellow citizens are being treated by intubation. Their average age is 65. 169 (28.2%) are women and the rest are men. 75.3% of intubated patients have an underlying disease or are 70 years or older. 651 patients have been discharged from the ICU.
Finally, we have 101 more registered deaths and 3003 deaths in total in the country. 1,197 (39.9%) women and the rest men. The average age of our dying fellow citizens was 79 years and 96.2% had an underlying disease and / or were 70 years or older.
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