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The country remains on alert, as cases may be reduced in the last two days, but the pressure on the health system remains “red”, with hospitals reaching their limits and ICUs unable to manage the volume of patients requiring intubation .
This is why the government – with a tragic delay, as many accuse it – is proceeding with orders for private clinics and hospital conversions, to only accept coronavirus cases.
All this while doctors and nurses fight a superhuman battle in hospitals, where their resistance is exhausted day by day, while the number of doctors who have now become ill is worrying.
At the same time, an alarm is sounded by the death toll, which today, for the first time since the start of a pandemic in Greece, broke the 100 barrier, with EODY announcing 108 deaths in just 24 hours. Indicative of the criticality of the situation is that the previous black record was 36 fewer deaths.
Thessaloniki is suffering
Thessaloniki, where 606 new cases have been identified today, is the area most affected by the second wave of the deadly virus and now hospitals are in a constant marathon so that no patient is left without a bed, a task that with the passing of days proves to make it increasingly difficult.
The high number of cases in the co-capital that led to an increase in hospital admissions was also the reason why the government proceeded to order two private clinics where, after emptying the beds, coronavirus patients will likely be transferred from public hospitals next week. tried.
However, indicative of the suffocating pressure received by the National Health System in Thessaloniki is the fact that the Hippocratic Hospital began its watch yesterday morning with 20 full ICU beds, during the watch it received dozens of admissions from patients with coronavirus and thus, according to SKY, it had to create two new ICUs to incorporate new patients.
According to the same information, today in Thessaloniki the “Papanikolaou” hospital is on duty where the 44 beds of the ICU are full and the “Agios Dimitrios” where the 12 beds of the Covid ICU are also full. At the same time, a 35-year-old man from Veria was admitted to “Papanikolaou” today and was intubated. 
Attica is also suffering
The situation in Attica hospitals is somewhat better, but equally worrying and marginal. At Evangelismos Hospital, more than half of the ICU beds are occupied.
With the strengthening and support of the NSS to face the second severe wave of the pandemic, it is now an insurmountable need, it is planned, according to exclusive information from MEGA, one of the largest hospitals in Attica, that it will be transformed in the coming days. exclusively in a Covid-19, that is, only patients with the deadly virus will be treated.
What scientists say
All of the above removes once and for all the removal of the blockade on November 30, something that scientists are now clarifying.
According to the professor of pathology of infectious diseases and member of the infectious diseases committee, Charalambos Gogos, clarified that it is too early to talk about any relaxation of restrictive measures.
He explained that there is a flattening of the case curve, but its reflection in the reduction of the number of patients occurs after about a week, since it takes seven days for the severe symptoms of the disease to appear.
As he clarified in statements to SKAI, “it definitely takes 15 days to see the reduction in the week and another week to see the effect on the health system and have a good hospitalization.”
With these data, he stressed that next week is crucial and that if there is a drop in the curve to 1,000 to 2,000 cases, that “we can begin to think about relaxing the first measures such as schools – primary and kindergarten, high school”. and secondary schools after and retail. “
According to the professor, the approach could continue, but in the sense of restaurants and the operation of outdoor areas with heating devices.
Regarding the possibility of a rolling lockdown, he said that it is a final measure that does not pass and the correct message to the public. What is needed at the end of the shutdown is, as he said, for citizens to comply and for the state to open safely.
For her part, the professor of pulmonology and president of the Hellenic Society of Intensive Care, Anastasia Kotanidou, stressed that by the weekend it is expected to see the results of the measures to deal with the spread of the coronavirus.
He stressed that “ICUs are under pressure across the country. I am convinced that all colleagues and medical and nursing staff will do everything possible to ensure that all patients have an ICU bed.” They are constantly opening new beds and doing the impossible, “he told Alpha.
“First we will see a reduction of cases that need hospitalization and then a reduction of cases that need ICU. “If we continue well, at the end of the week we should see better indicators both in the units and in the hospitals,” he characteristically said.
“We have not spoken of a stricter measure. What we have said is that the existing measures must be strictly complied with. At this stage, it is not necessary to enter a travel stop,” he added.
Finally, regarding dispersion during the winter months, he said that “fortunately the country, despite the arrival of winter, has enough sun and good temperatures. We have the ability to have the windows open. This is the most important thing to keep the atmosphere in the workplace clean. “
The situation in Greece
Cases may have declined today, but temporary relief immediately gave way to mourning and terror, as both deaths and intubations hit a record low.
Specifically, according to EODY, 2,311 new cases of the deadly virus were announced in the country today, of which 18 were detected after controls at the country’s gateways.
For the umpteenth day in a row, Thessaloniki emerges as the “champion” of the cases, which is at an extremely critical turning point in terms of the evolution of the pandemic.
Of the 2,311 cases announced by the National Public Health Organization in the last 24 hours, 606 are registered in Thessaloniki, while Attica is on alert with 382 cases.
Furthermore, a three-digit number of cases is found in Pella with 140 and in Larissa with 117.
However, it is observed that the dispersion throughout the country is very large.
Analytically:
- 18 cases during controls carried out at the country’s entry gates
- 1 imported case that came voluntarily to be tested
- 382 cases from the Attica region
- 606 cases in PE Thessaloniki
- 58 cases in PE Etoloakarnania
- 3 cases in PE From Arcadia
- 8 cases in PE Arta
- 19 cases in PE from acaya
- 6 cases in PE Βοιωτίας
- 18 cases in PE Grevena
- 55 cases in PE Drama
- 27 cases in PE Evros
- 6 cases in PE De Evia
- 2 cases in PE Evritania
- 6 cases in PE from ilia
- 61 cases in PE Imathia
- 19 cases in PE Heraklion
- 1 case in PE Thesprotia
- 1 case in PE Θήρας
- 1 case in PE Ikaria
- 5 cases in PE Ioannina
- 29 cases in PE Kavala
- 45 cases in PE Karditsa
- 4 cases in PE Kastoria
- 9 cases in PE Corfu
- 36 cases in PE Kilkis
- 39 cases in PE Kozani
- 5 cases in PE Corinto
- 1 case in PE Laconia
- 117 cases in PE from Larissa
- 4 cases in PE Lassithi
- 70 cases in PE Lesbos
- 40 cases in PE Magnesia
- 14 cases in PE from messinia
- 1 case in PE Mykonos
- 93 cases in PE Xanthi
- 140 cases in PE Pella
- 60 cases in PE Pieria
- 1 case in PE From Rethymno
- 15 cases in PE Rodopi
- 6 cases in PE Rhodes
- 3 cases in PE Samos
- 78 cases in PE Serres
- 1 case in PE De tinos
- 36 cases in PE Trikala
- 17 cases in PE Fthiotida
- 44 cases in PE Florina
- 6 cases in PE Φωκίδας
- 53 cases in PE from Halkidiki
- 15 cases in PE Chania
- 26 cases are under investigation.
They broke the “barrier” of 90,000 cases
Thus, the total number of cases is 90,121, of which 53.4% are men, while 4,787 (5.3%) are considered related to travel from abroad and 22,901 (25.4%) are related to a case already known. 
In addition, 522 of our fellow citizens are treated by intubation. Their average age is 65. 149 (28.5%) are women and the rest are men. 82.4% of intubated patients have an underlying disease or are 70 years or older. 460 patients have been discharged from the ICU.
Finally, we have 108 more deaths registered and 1527 deaths in total in the country. 608 (39.8%) women and the rest men. The mean age of our dying fellow citizens was 80 years and 97.1% had an underlying disease and / or were 70 years or older.
Age distribution
The average age of the cases is 42 years (range 0 to 104 years), while the average age of death is 80 years (range 25 to 103 years). The age distribution of (a) total cases, (b) cases that resulted in death, and (c) patients treated by intubation, is as follows: 
Geographic dispersion
The map shows the geographical distribution of total COVID-19 cases (since the beginning of the epidemic) by Regional Unit of the country, according to the declared address of permanent residence of the patient, or the address of temporary residence for tourists and other temporary residents. in Greece. It includes both cases with a travel history (“imported”) and cases with possible national transmission. 
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