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Disinfection in the student residences of AUTh, yesterday (photo: INTIME NEWS).
New measures are expected for areas where the COVID-19 health and safety map is orange, so that it does not turn red, by the weekend, without such a thing being ruled out even earlier, as will be decided at the meeting of the tomorrow today. under Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. The government is targeting a 12.30pm to 5am curfew to avoid the main cause of overcrowding right now, which is youth entertainment parties and gatherings. At the same time, the universal use of a mask has fallen on the table with the subject examining how it can be applied. One idea is to use it on busier roads, as is the case abroad. Finally, a measure that has fallen on the table, but is still far from being implemented, is the prohibition of moving from one county to another. This only applies to the time the map has turned red, but it may also apply to the “orange” areas of the map.
The need for additional measures becomes urgent due to the rapid deterioration of the country’s epidemiological picture, with daily cases of coronavirus breaking one record after another, reaching 865 yesterday. Kastoria becomes the second – after Kozani – regional unit in which The closure is applied to this second wave of the coronavirus, since as of tomorrow morning the anti-dispersion measures applied at level 4 will be applied and that refer to the suspension of courts, museums, theaters, cinemas, shops , restaurants, hairdressers and gyms. , banning of meetings and mandatory use of masks everywhere.
Respectively, starting tomorrow morning Thessaloniki, Boeotia and Larisa will raise the alarm level from 2 which is now to 3, which mainly means more restrictions on meetings, fullness and opening hours of health shops, theaters , cinemas, etc. , while a big “jump” is registered by the Serres Peripheral Unit that went from “green” (alarm level 1) directly to “orange” (alarm level 3). Shortly before the “reds” are Ioannina, where, as the Secretary General of Civil Protection, Nikos Hardalias, and who made the relevant announcements said yesterday, the indicators are marginal and the situation will be reassessed by the special commission of the health security map on the next Saturday.
Yesterday there was a new negative record in the number of daily cases: 865 new cases, compared to 667 the day before yesterday. 24,000 tests were carried out, which means that the positivity rate in the country is 3.6%. The average age of the cases is 37 years. In Thessaloniki especially, the average age is even lower, 28 years. Of the new cases, 82 are associated with known confluences and 44 were identified after checks at the entrance gates. 331 cases were detected in Attica, 181 in Thessaloniki, 9 in Kastoria, 32 in Ioannina and 10, 23 and 19 in Boeotia, Larissa and Serres, respectively. In Greece, a total of 27,334 laboratory-confirmed coronavirus cases have been registered since the beginning of the epidemic until yesterday. The number of deaths reported yesterday was six (534 deaths in total), while 86 patients with COVID-19 are treated by intubation in intensive care units.
Hospital “Ag. Savvas»
The “Agios Savvas” hospital was placed on alert Tuesday night, after a case of coronavirus was detected among the medical staff of the hospital’s Hematology Clinic. The hematologist who tested positive for the virus as well as four other doctors at the clinic were quarantined as a precaution, while 17 people were treated, hospitalized and the clinic staff, whose results are pending. Six cases were also detected in the hospital (ward C1) last week. Two positive patients were treated at other hospitals, one patient is treated at the “Ag. Savva” COVID clinic, while 13 nurses and two specialists were quarantined as a precaution. Yesterday it was expected to complete the laboratory test of all AHEPA hospital staff (more than 1,500 people underwent a rapid test), which was considered necessary after the detection of 10 cases among employees.
