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The news that Greece is in first place, in relation to the number of coronary tests that it has carried out per confirmed case, has reached enormous proportions.
Initially, on 05-10-2020, the Vice Minister of Health, Vassilis Kontozamanis, declared to ERT:
“Recently, in a scientific publication that saw the light of day, an index brought Greece first among the countries with the highest number of tests per confirmed case.”
Check out the relevant video:
Of course, the undersecretary of state, Mr. Kontozamanis, did not show any statistics in the video in question, only made a statement.
Then on 11-05-2020, in the SKAI afternoon newsletter (from 00:30:28 on the video), a relevant graph was presented with data from the European Center for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC ), where Greece was shown in the table to be in first place.
Check out the SKAI video that caused a huge uproar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTlLXVgngnFs
The caption read “Greece first in number of evidence per case.” Soon after, there was a huge uproar on social media, with many claiming that the painting was fake and others claiming it to be correct.
See the table shown in the SKAI newsletter
It is worth noting that the above table was also adopted by the Ministry of Health and even posted on Twitter.
Proponents of the theory that the SKAI table is correct also published a second table containing data on the same and more countries in the SKAI table.
But what is the truth? Is our country first?
The source of the latest graph is the University of Oxford-based Our World In Data research initiative, which is committed to presenting the latest and most reliable data on the evolution of our world. We found the controversial entry for confirmed case testing here.
According to the ellinikahoaxes.gr website, while the data sources are the official state, and the chart presented earlier as of May 5 is technically correct, this chart alone cannot support its claim for first place. Greece in pan-European or world tests, since it has a selective sample of countries.
In the table below we see the data in a more representative international sample:
In our calculation for all the countries that had data for May 9 in the entry Our world in data (the latest data available at the time of writing these lines), Greece ranked 27th internationally. European countries such as Estonia, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Slovakia, Latvia, and Lithuania are among the highest.
Conclusion: The claim that Greece comes first, pan-European or global, in terms of the amount of coronary evidence, does not apply.
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See the gallery below for the number of laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 cases in Greece
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Samples that have been tested in laboratories that cooperate with EODY.
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