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Christos Hadjichristodoulou, Professor of Hygiene and Epidemiology at the University of Thessaly, spoke of the unexpected improvement in the health situation in areas such as northern Greece.
He stressed that such a case is that of Magnesia, a regional unit that “passed” early in the red level, before the universal closure simply because it bordered Larissa and there was information on the movement of citizens.
Mr. Hadjichristodoulou highlighted that while in three regional units of Thessaly the transmission rate, the so-called Rt, in recent days is close to 1 in Magnesia it remains slightly above 1.
“The fact that it is not improving even though it was taken earlier in the emergency measures, we have to see this a bit and it may be related to other areas that are not improving as fast as we expected,” said the professor.
As said the phenomenon that some areas do not respond the same as others, it may be due to non-compliance with measures.
He stressed that cases may drop next week, but this will depend on compliance with the measures.
“I believe that if we continue implementing the measures with the same determination, next week we will have a decrease in cases and possibly by the end of next week, at the beginning of the next, we will have an improvement in the health system.”
Regarding the time of relaxation of the restrictions, he stressed that first the situation in the Health System must be improved and then one must start talking about the lifting, which in any case will be gradual, starting with the schools.
Regarding the possibility of a third wave or rolling closure, he said that in order not to re-close the three basic rules must be applied correctly: proper use of the mask, distancing, hand hygiene.
Source: skai.gr
