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According to the National Public Health Agency, there are 187 new cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours.
According to the EODY announcement, 40 patients are treated by intubation.
Another death was recorded in the last 24 hours. Since the beginning of the pandemic, deaths in Greece amount to 280.
From January 1, 2020 until today, in the laboratories that test for the new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) and that systematically declare to the EODY all the samples they analyze (positive and negative), a total of 1,015,064 clinical samples. , of which 11,401 (1.12%) were positive for coronavirus (including more than one sample per person tested).
The EODY announcement:
“Today we announce 187 new cases of the new virus in the country, of which 27 were detected after controls at the country’s entry gates. The total number of cases is 11,386, of which 55.7% are men.
2,219 (19.5%) are considered related to trips from abroad and 4,970 (43.7%) are related to an already known case.
40 of our fellow citizens are being treated by intubation. Their average age is 70 years. 10 (25.0%) are women and the rest are men. 82.5% of intubated patients have an underlying disease or are 70 years or older. 157 patients have been discharged from the ICU.
Finally, we have 1 more registered death and 280 deaths in total in the country. 103 (36.8%) women and the rest men. The mean age of our deceased fellow citizens was 78 years and 96.1% had an underlying disease and / or 70 years or more. “
Epidemiologist: “Open” the possibility of a third, fourth and fifth wave
In the middle of summer and with tourism we managed to reduce the second wave, which began at the end of July, said the associate professor of Epidemiology – Preventive Medicine at the EKPA Faculty of Medicine and member of the expert committee of the Ministry of Health, Dimitris Paraskevi.
In statements to the FM Agency, the epidemiologist said that There is the possibility of a third, fourth or even fifth wave epidemic., if conditions permit. However, he noted that the epidemiological curve shows a stabilizing trend for about 20 days and expressed the hope that there will be a reduction in cases in September.
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