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“Right now we see a transmission of the coronavirus of around 1.5 – 2%, that is 60,000 – 80,000 active actors at this time in Attica to the population of 4.2 million, “he said among others Nikos Thomaidis, Professor of Analytical Chemistry at EKPA.
As he stated, “every day we receive a sample of Psytallia, we analyze the viral load coronavirus and we delivered the results to the Public Health Committee of the Ministry of Health “, while pointing out that in recent days” the controls that are carried out show that they are stable high viral load of the coronavirus and that we are in the ascent of the 2nd great wave ”.
At the same time, he stressed that the commission of the Ministry of Health has carried out the pareo of viral load with cases in the population and have seen the correlation.
“There is no direct analogy with the cases announced by EODY because we take a sample and see how many carriers we will find roughly from the population while they (EODY) target controlled suspected cases,” he said, speaking to SKAI.
Asked about process of these tests confirmed that if someone gets sick from the virus from their waste going to Psytallia, they can see the viral load.
EODY announced 2,448 new cases of the new virus in the country on Friday, of which 63 were detected after controls at the country’s gateways. The total number of cases is 52,254, of which 54.4% are men.
It is considered that 4,369 (8.4%) are related to trips from abroad and 15,192 (29.1%) are related to an already known case.
196 of our fellow citizens are being treated by intubation. Their average age is 66. 45 (23.0%) are women and the rest are men. 91.3% of intubated patients have an underlying disease or are 70 years or older. 315 patients have been discharged from the ICU.