Koronovirus: alarm over cases in northern Greece



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With increasing intensity, the coronavirus wave “spreads” outside Attica, especially in northern greece, making their stop in a very difficult company for the health and scientific authorities. This is because these are areas with different characteristics regarding the transmission of the coronavirus, the extent of the spread, the foci of infection, the age groups of the patients, the health structures that can support those who need hospitalization.

At the same time, an alarm has sounded in the country’s health authorities since last night for 23 French students who returned to Piraeus from Santorini with the ship “Blue Star Delos” as a teacher accompanying them was found positive for the coronavirus.

Check out the videos from last night in Piraeus when the ship arrived with the group of French students:

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With the Attica appear marginally stabilized, the authorities throw a special operating weight, in addition to the “red” and with local Kozani lock, targeting your areas Ioannina, Kastoria, Thessaloniki, Serres. For example, in all three areas, the emphasis is now on checks with the cooperation of all those responsible for the best possible result, while on Serres essentially the municipal authority of the city implemented strict grid of measurements. However, indicative of the dynamics of the epidemic in these areas is that from last Sunday to yesterday in Thessaloniki 398 new cases were registered, in Ioannina 155 cases, in Kozani 221, in Kastoria 100, while in Serres in just 24 hours 28 positive diagnoses of coronavirus were registered.

Yesterday it was recorded again high number of coronavirus cases (438) in the country, and Attica consistently maintains its first nationwide negative number of young people positive for the coronavirus. Of the 388 domestic cases, 175 were registered in the basin, a small number compared to the previous days in the Attica region. In total, the epidemiological report of the National Public Health Organization (EODY) shows that the coronavirus is circulating in at least 36 regional units of the country.

Anxiety about the test results of French tourists

At the same time, an alarm has sounded to the country’s health authorities since Monday night for 23 French students who were returning to Piraeus from Santorini with the ship “Blue Star Delos” when a positive coronavirus was found by a teacher accompanying them .

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France tested positive after having given a sample at the airport “El. Venizelos” upon arrival in Greece. When the case was confirmed, the authorities were informed and the planned procedure was initiated. The ship arrived in Piraeus at 23 : 30 and immediately began the operation to transport the suspected cases.

The French entered three vans and were transferred to the special zone to be tested, the results of which will be announced in the next few hours. It should be noted that the ship yesterday had a total of 485 passengers.

Patient admissions to Attica hospitals decreased yesterday

However, yesterday’s 24-hour report on the epidemic captured for the first time the fragile stabilization of the Attica curve that scientists have been talking about for the past week. and in the critical field of hospitalizations. The data shows a slight decrease in the flow of people who are seriously ill with coronavirus and need hospitalization in Attica hospitals. Of the 76 patients admitted to hospitals across the country yesterday, 36 were admitted to hospitals in Attica and 42 patients to hospitals in the region.

So far, 60% have been stable at the national level, even 70% of coronavirus patients were admitted and hospitalized daily in Attica, an expected fact according to the experts, since as of August 15, the circulation of the coronavirus was continuous and with an increasing trend in various parts of the basin.

Yesterday, however, the percentage of new patients “closed” to 45% of all admissions, which may be temporary but may also mark the beginning of the decline of the epidemic in Attica, with what this will mean for reduction of seriously ill and decompressing the health system in the basin.

As an indication, it is reported that in the last 24 hours, 26 patients with Covid-19 infection were admitted to only four hospitals in the country, in University of Ioannina, at Bodosakeio Hospital in Ptolemaida, at Mamatsio Kozani and at Papageorgiou Thessaloniki. And as experts reiterate, hospitalizations are primarily for people vulnerable to the coronavirus, especially the elderly or those with health problems who develop severe symptoms after infection, as opposed to young people who become infected and generally do not receive treatment.

Ejection of patients at the NSS

In total, and based on yesterday’s report, the number of patients with Covid-19 infection admitted to hospitals throughout the country is 781. This is a high number, compared to that registered in previous weeks in the daily epidemiological bulletins. During the last two months, the second wave of the epidemic is “spreading” in the country the number of patients had not exceeded 720.

Of the 781 patients, 550 are in Covid-19 single beds. 99 people are hospitalized in the Intensive Care Units (ICU), of which 61 are in Attica hospitals. Intubation was 82 until last night The report of the last 24 hours was heavy since the victims of the coronavirus amounted to 11, while another 3 patients ended after the announcement of the epidemiological report. In total, the number of deaths from coronavirus in our country is 525.

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