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The representative of the Ministry of Health, the infectious disease specialist Sotiris Tsiodras, announced on Friday afternoon 40 new cases of coronary heart disease in our country. Of these 35 are those found in the Roma settlement in Nea Smyrni, Larissa.
The total number of cases is 2,810, of which 55.2% are men. 612 (21.8%) are considered related to travel from abroad and 1452 (51.7%) are related to a case already known.
Tsiodras also announced that four new deaths have been recorded in the past 24 hours, for a total of 160 in Greece. 43 (26.9%) were women and the rest were men. The median age of our deceased fellow citizens was 75 years and 93.8% had an underlying disease and / or 70 years or older.
23 patients are being treated by intubation. Their average age is 72 years. 10 of them are women and the rest are men. 95.7% have an underlying disease or are over 70 years old.
It is worth noting that 90 patients have left the ICU.
A total of 120,015 clinical samples have been tested.
Tsiodras reiterated that the strategy of controlling, tracking and isolating contacts is still the most important way to deal with it. He even said that to reduce an epidemic involving 1000 people in a single-digit area, that is, to reduce the reproductive rate from R0 to 0.5, it takes 30 to 35 days to come out.
“I wish there was a huge change in the virus that would upset the balance, but it doesn’t seem likely. We will continue to detect individual cases of the disease and fight them at local hot spots. I am concerned that this is not practically impossible in multiple cases.” “They will try again to test the suitability of the system, they will evaluate the strategy of lifting the measures, all the effort to return to partial normality,” said Tsiodras.
Regarding the use of antibody tests, Mr. Tsiodras stated that we are in constant communication with international organizations and that the use of antibodies for diagnosis is not recommended. “In the acute phase of the disease, they give false negative results. Let me give you an example. I am a citizen in an epidemic.” Because I heard there is a quick test that in a few minutes tells you if you have passed the virus. I am going to do the test and they tell me that I am negative, that does not mean that I do not have the virus. The test can make 20 days positive and there is a possibility when I am on an antibody test depending on the day of the disease I am on, depending on the quality of the test. So I don’t believe in this negative test that gives me false security, that it guides me wrongly, that I have nothing, “said the professor.
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