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Alternate blockades until March to limit the spread of the coronavirus, suggests Demosthenes Sarigiannis, Professor of Environmental Engineering at the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Polytechnic School of AUTh.
Specifically, Sarigiannis told OPEN: “Our proposal is an alternative” mini “blockade. We have made a scheme with 21 days of lockdown, 14 days open, which after three or four cycles takes us until the end of March, with about 500- 600 boxes per day. I think this is important for the decompression of the NSS. If we follow this scheme, it will “cost” us about 200 ICU beds due to coronavirus and we have the capacity to manage it. “
“The image of the diaspora is very big,” Sarigiannis stressed.
Sarigiannis predicts a reduction in cases after November 10.
“We expect a peak on November 10 for cases, they can exceed 3,000,” Sarigiannis said, adding that “then we will have decompression.”
After November 30, “we came out of the universal quarantine with restrictive measures.” We suggest opening the restaurant very carefully, the bars may not open. “There are parts of the bulb that we know can create sprouts.”
“I think the restaurant will reopen because we are Greek and we have a business genius,” he said when asked about entrepreneurs who may not be able to continue their catering activities if they do not open after November.
Sarigiannis said that after the November close, “a careful plan is needed at the sector level.” Retail will open first. “
When asked if the stores will be open at Christmas, Sarigiannis said we need to be careful and “in terms of trade and market movement, I think we can be open if we implement the closure now.”
At the same time, the rapid increase in cases, the hundreds of new hospital admissions and the coverage of 62% of ICUs by covid, also leads to an increase in deaths from the coronavirus epidemic. According to yesterday’s information, more than 10 people have lost their lives due to the coronavirus, so it is considered certain that in today’s epidemiological report from EODY, the total number of our fellow citizens who have died will have exceeded 760.
It is also noted that 34 deaths were announced yesterday within a record number of 24 hours. This number shows that there is more than 1 death per hour in Greece.
What about ICUs?
According to circles of the Ministry of Health, a total of 1,063 ICU beds are currently operating throughout the country. Of these, 734 are employed and 329 are vacant (31%).
The non-COVID ICUs are currently 643, 475 are occupied and 168 vacant (26%), while the COVID-ICUs are currently 420. Of these, 259 are occupied and 161 vacant (38%).
The ICU-COVID serving the needs of Thessaloniki (including Halkidiki and Kavala hospitals) are currently 124. Of these, 93 are occupied and 31 are vacant (25%).
In Attica Hospitals, there are currently 168 ICU-COVID and of these, 112 are occupied and 56 vacant (33%).
The total number of beds available nationwide for the treatment of confirmed COVID-19 cases is 4,452 and the COVID-19 patients currently in treatment are 2,059 (total ICU, MAF, MEL, negative pressure chambers and individual beds )
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