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A epidemiologically severe october prepares to give the baton to one critical, perhaps unpredictable, in terms of the epidemic coronavirus, November, in our country as in other European countries. It is indicative that the number of positive cases doubled during October that had been recorded throughout the epidemic period: in 18,475 cases registered from February to September in our country, other 17,035 cases this month. During the same period, 224 dead, that is, approximately 1/3 of the people who died during the epidemic In our country. In general, they have lost their lives 615 people due to coronavirus.
Expert appraisal that the epidemic is growing at an exponential rate For days it has been keeping the government on high alert, which, having accepted and evaluated the suggestions of the Committee of Experts on the next strategic moves, will announce today a four-week action plan to stop the second wave of the epidemic.
The objective of the plan to be developed by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is Immediately avoid at least one generalized blockade in the country. It is recalled that seven regional units of the country are located in local lockdwon, Kozani, Kastoria, Ioannina, Serres, Thessaloniki, Larissa and Rodopi. And although the widespread lockdown is on the horizon of what the country is doing now, scientists and the government will try coordinated and specific measures to cut the chain of transmission of the coronavirus both in the densely congested areas and in the less virus-laden areas of the country.
In this context, the scientists of the Committee of Experts, after a series of meetings, which ended yesterday afternoon, It was reported that two horizontal measures were proposed, that is, throughout the country and regardless of the risk rating of the areas, and a series of measures aimed at orange areas.
“Green” in the mask, “red” in sporting and social events
The horizontal measurements are the mandatory use of a mask everywhere, in all areas, indoors and outdoors, and the suspension of all amateur team sporting events.
Today the use of a mask is required In all areas, internal Y external, in areas affected by the coronavirus and are on levels 3 and 4, the call “Orange” Y “Red” areas. In its initial discussions, the Commission considered the use of a mask to extend to the “yellow” areas, but in the end it was decided that the suggestion refers to the use of the mask in “green” areas so that the epidemic does not spread further or attempts are made to stop it once it has spread. However, in less stressful areas, the mask will be mandatory indoors and outdoors when and where there is coloration. In the “orange” and “red” areas, the use of a mask is everywhere, without exception.
THE suspension of team sporting events across the country has also been suggested by selected experts because monitoring has consistently shown in recent weeks that sporting events were coronavirus clusters. The reasoning of the experts is to drastically narrow down the specific organizations that appear to have given hundreds of confluences and to stop the rapid increase in cases.
In addition, “smart” measures aimed at the other important field of coronavirus spread, that of entertainment, they have been proposed for “orange” areas, that is, those that have been characterized by greater epidemiological surveillance. Suggestion includes the closure of restaurants and other places of health interest at 9:00 p.m., the night lockdown, that is, the traffic ban from 9.30 or 10 in the afternoon until 5 in the morning and also at the same time the prohibition of traffic outside the limits of the regional unit – however, the last proposal faces technical difficulties in its implementation, which may render it inactive. The use of a mask during the entire stay in areas of health interest has also been suggested.
Finally, the Committee of Experts proposed the widest possible extension of telework and distance education in universities.
The epidemiological situation and the wave of patients in the NSS
the 1,211 cases announced yesterday they most likely constitute a … little oasis in comparison with the much higher cases registered in the previous days, since they are attributed to the day before the holiday of October 28 and the lower number of tests carried out.
THE Attica and the Thessaloniki collected approximately half of the country’s total cases, 335 Attica and 275 Thessaloniki. The rest are distributed in another 44 regional units, with Larissa and Serres (51 cases), Rodopi (41), Kozani, Messinia and Xanthi (30), Drama and Evros (24 and 23 cases respectively), Kavala (19) and Ioannina (18).
THE uncontrolled circulation of coronavirus in most of the country it has left a strong mark on the country’s hospitals. According to available data, last night more than 1,000 patients were treated in simple clinics and Covid-19 units, to be precise. 1,055. From them all 144 people were in ICU beds in hospitals in the country.
The number of them is also increasing and is obviously worrying. intubated I was late last night 122. It should be noted that until yesterday at noon the people were intubated 114 and in a few hours they rose to 122.
Furthermore, in the last 24 hours, the admissions of new patients continued in large numbers. There were 152 admissions, of which 1/3 in Attica hospitals and the rest in hospitals in the region, especially in Macedonia.
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