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The optimism that in a year we will be without masks expressed it Charalambos Gogos, professor of infectious disease pathology and member of the infectious disease committee, speaking in the first SKAI central newsletter for 2021 and Nikos Stravelakis.
As he has underlined “in 1 year we could take off our masks in the sense that vaccines will be generalized, there will be many platforms available, and until then we will have a large number of vaccines to vaccinate a large number of the population and pass into a disease that it will have the epidemic characteristics of a flu-like infection, however, he emphasized that it is understood that measures will be taken where and when necessary ”.
He pointed out that this year we won a bet, the rapid reproduction of vaccines that was the only solution to the pandemic and we managed to have safe and effective vaccines in one year and in fact from many platforms at the same time.
Positive in the opening of elementary schools on 1/11
Regarding the meeting that the infectious diseases committee will have on Monday and the opening of the comments, the professor said that it is everyone’s wish that schools be opened, but also that this process is safe, that is, that there is data that everything will be fine.
If things do not get worse and there is no increase in mobility, we can at least see the opening of primary schools from January 11, but since the opening will be horizontal, we must also consider “difficult” areas, such as Kozani.
On Monday we will have data on the celebration of Christmas. “It will be 10 days since then for us to know that our behaviors and mobility in those days reflect the epidemiological curve that exists and there will also be data from hospitals,” he said.
Regarding store openings, he said “I don’t see it right away” that we should see a steady decline if we have a real download from the system.
The “key” to the decisions is the situation in Athens
At the same time, he pointed out that in Attica there seems to be a stabilization of cases, not an improvement, while in Thessaloniki a rapid decline and if something happens in Attica, like an outbreak, we will have a lot of difficulties.
“Attica is one of the areas that we have our eyes on and our focus is on the area and it is one of the key areas that we will look at to make decisions for the future.”
He added that the numbers in Athens are kept in the three digits.
Source: skai.gr
