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Intubated people broke the 500 barrier, reaching 506. The hardest element of today’s epidemiological report from the National Public Health Organization (EODY) in combination with the 51 new deaths and the 501 admissions of patients with COVID-19 in the country’s hospitals in the last 24 hours, reflect most clearly the enormous battle that the National Health System is waging against the pandemic.
On November 20, the number of intubated patients increased from 499 to 519. In just 13 days, the number had skyrocketed to 622. With many fluctuations, great effort, and strict restrictive measures, it took two full months to decompress the respiratory system. health and reduce intubation in 244 (February 2). Since then, the trends have been increasing.
The weight of the previous numbers is better reflected when in the equation add cases of mutations to 2,098 in total in the territory For British and South African executives, the growing spread of the coronavirus across the country, the alarming demonstrations and the fatigue of citizens, factors that make managing the pandemic an enigma for strong solvers. Reopening the economy and education for livelihoods remains a hot topic, while Clean Monday will be another test of compliance with restrictive safeguards.
All data “shows” an extent of the total lockdown in Attica, as well as the inclusion of additional areas in the “deep red”. It is expected that the possible extension, at least until March 22, will be announced at the ordinary press conference on Friday by the Deputy Minister of Civil Protection, Nikos Hardalias, as well as which areas remain or are included in the “deep red”.
Mutations are hitting the country and testing the NSS’s resilience
Mutations, and especially the British one that usually prevails, determine the developments of the pandemic in the country. According to the latest data from the National Genomic Surveillance Network, the 371 positive samples, 368 for the British mutation and 3 for the South African mutation, bring the total to 2,047 and 51, respectively.
If mutated British strains are responsible for 85% of cases in AtticaAccording to the Director of the Laboratory of the Hellenic Center for Genomic Surveillance, Dimitris Thanos, then the pressure on the hospitals in the basin is inextricably linked to them.
Yesterday clashes broke out in the country’s hospitals that received 501 new patients, 345 in Attica and another 156 in hospitals in the rest of the country. According to the Panhellenic Federation of Public Hospital Employees (POEDIN), patients with COVID-19 end up being intubated outside the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). As an indication, Sismanogleio, Nikaia, Erythros, Amalia Fleming and Gennimatas reached their fullness in ICU yesterday. Only 301 were discharges.
The Emergency Plan for the strengthening of the National Health Service is underway, with the Peristeri Medical Center and the HET of the HHG Group receiving COVID-19 incidents as of today, while the response to yesterday’s call from the Minister of Health , Vassilis Kikilias, and Medical Athens (ISA) to private physicians to contribute to the national effort for as long as needed.
Specifically, it concerns 20 private doctors in Athens, 8 pulmonologists, 6 doctors and 6 general practitioners, who completed the application published on the ISA website.
Attica is in trouble: all of Greece is in the red
Many 2,570 new cases today according to the EODY report after 50,078 tests, of which 31,324 are rapid and only 18,754 molecular.
The widespread spread of the virus in the country makes it red on the map of the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), according to its criteria of the number of tests carried out, new infections and the positivity rate of the previous two weeks. which is equal to or greater than 4%.
THE Attica again with a four-digit number of cases at 1,282, almost half, hiding the virus in each of its neighborhoods. The distribution of new diagnoses is not far from yesterday: 317 are located in the Center, 226 in Piraeus210 in the West, 160 in the North and 144 in the South Sector of Athens, 141 in the East and 67 in West Attica, while finally 17 in the Islands.
The epidemiological burden does not appear to be decreasing, despite strict measures. This is a common observation for the case of Thessaloniki with the 229 new cases and the large increase in the viral load of its wastewater. As the AUTh-EYATH study showed, a 206% increase was observed over a 10-day period.
The image for her is printed in black. Peloponnesus from Crimson Acaya (131 new infections) and Corinth (40), followed by Argolida (22), Ilia (18) and Arcadia (14), and a better image for Messinia (11) and Laconia (4).
Today a decrease is observed in Larissa that fell again to a number of diagnoses in the double digits (82), but not for Kavala (28), Lesbos (17), Evritania (10), Magnesia (23), Serres (24) , Chania (27) and Halkidiki (34) that had more cases compared to yesterday and, finally, the regional units of Evia (48) and Heraklion (48), which are constantly on a negative course.
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