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Lockdown – Coronavirus: Talk about the pandemic curve amid a universal lockdown Newsbomb.gr, o Professor of Microbiology Mr. Alkiviadis Vatopoulos.
The professor of microbiology, referred to the main issue, which concerns most of the population, that is, when, that is, their measures will bear fruit. emergency shutdown (universal use of mask and traffic ban), that is, when will it exist significant improvement in the epidemiological burden of the country.
Then he, commenting on the fact that today Tuesday (11/17), 2,400 cases were detected in 30,000 tests, while last week in the same number of tests we had a record with almost 3,500, He stressed that these numbers are a sign that the measures have started to work.
“The curves show the rate of increase in cases has started to shrink since November 7, the curve is less vertical, it has become almost horizontal. So we have to let this week pass and little by little we will begin to see a leveling. “This leveling, however, is already evident in numbers,” he said.
About North Greece, where the situation is particularly critical due to the increase in both deaths and intubations, the professor of microbiology stressed that “normally the situation in northern Greece It should have already started to stabilize. We hope to see him there every day, as in the rest of Greece ”.
Referring to the most correct – in your opinion – measures de-escalation process, To get to the period this Christmas, Mr. Vatopoulos noted that “the role model is the same as that of May. That is, start opening things little by little, first the stores, the schools, then the restaurants with measures and so on ”.
“Black” record with 443 intubated – The official EODY update
The new laboratory confirmed cases of the disease are 2,422, of which 6 were identified after controls at the gates of the country. The total number of cases is 78,825 (daily variation + 3.2%), of which 53.8% are men.
The new deaths of COVID-19 patients is 63, while since the beginning of the epidemic a total of 1,228 deaths have been registered. The median age of the patients who died was 80 years. The number of patients treated intubated
is 443 (67.7% men).
The daily distribution of confirmed cases is as follows (the line represents the total accumulated distribution of cases).
Of the total of 78,825 cases, 4,685 (5.9%) are considered related to travel from abroad, 20,225 (25.7%) are related to an already known case and the rest are not related to travel or any other known case or they are still under investigation.
The average age of the cases is 41 years (range 0 to 104 years), while the average age of death is 80 years (range 25 to 103 years). The age distribution of (a) total cases, (b) cases that resulted in death, and (c) patients treated by intubation is as follows:
Geographic dispersion
The map shows the geographical distribution of total COVID-19 cases (since the beginning of the epidemic) by Regional Unit of the country, according to the declared address of permanent residence of the patient, or the address of temporary residence for tourists and other temporary residents. in Greece.
It includes both cases with a travel history (“imported”) and cases with possible national transmission.
The evolution of the total cases and the total number of deaths of patients with COVID-19 is presented in the following diagram (in logarithmic scale).
Tested samples: From January 1, 2020 until today, a total of 2,128,189 clinical samples have been analyzed in laboratories that test for the new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) and that systematically report all the samples they control to EODY. , while from Health Units and EODY scales that perform Rapid Ag tests have tested 119,497 samples.
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