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Shortly after announcing the highest number of deaths in 24 hours from the coronavirus, infectious disease pediatrician Vana Papaevangelou spoke about the people who lost their lives due to the pandemic.
The infectious disease specialist urged citizens not to be skeptical of the fact that coronavirus victims are often elderly or have underlying illnesses.
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“These people were lost to the coronavirus, they would not have died if they had not been infected,” he said during a briefing on Friday.
According to EODY, the average age of our fellow citizens who died from the coronavirus was 80 years old and 96.9% had an underlying disease and / or were 70 years or older.
Vana Papaevangelou even cited as an example cases from the 1990s that are completely asymptomatic, as she put it, at a time when 40-year-olds are fighting and fighting for their lives.
Last week was difficult, regarding the pandemic.
“And last week was difficult, as will be the next,” Papaevangelou said, responding to a journalist’s question. However, as he said, “we do not lose hope and this stabilization that we are clearly seeing can help us to smile again in the coming days.”
Ms Papaevangelou admitted that the exponential increase in cases in Thessaloniki surprised experts, “it was greater than we expected,” she said. The infectious disease specialist referred to the negligence of some, with the festivities that took place in northern Greece in the midst of a pandemic, but also climate change, as factors in this increase in cases.
“As for Athens, we have better data, the growth rate decreased very easily and quickly. “I don’t expect to see a similar image with Thessaloniki in Attica,” he noted.
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