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The government received an alarm over the 197 coronavirus cases in Attica out of a total of 310 that were announced on Tuesday, with the government taking further action but ruling out the possibility of a local shutdown.
In fact, refuting the local confinement scenarios at the municipal level, the Deputy Minister of Civil Protection, Nikos Hardalias, during the standard update of the coronavirus in our country, said that the human geography and not only of the metropolitan areas, and therefore of Attica , does not allow vertical measurements by Municipality. “Nowhere in global practice are there protocols, crisis management manuals for such a thing, in terms of health risks,” he characteristically said.
“I have said it and I will say it again. The human geography and not only, of the metropolitan areas, and therefore of Attica, does not allow the taking of vertical measurements by Municipality.” Nowhere in world practice are there protocols, manuals crisis management for such a thing, in terms of health risks, ”he characteristically said.
He explained that the concept of local measures in metropolitan areas applies to the spatial planning units of the largest municipalities, p. at the Regional Unit level, or at the Regional level.
And this cat, as he explained, what it means, for example, to impose stricter restrictions on restaurants in a Municipality, when citizen-clients can go to neighboring municipalities or the mandatory use of an outdoor mask in a Municipality when there are roads that are Common for two or more Municipalities and citizens move from Municipality to Municipality anyway?
He affirmed that the treatment of the peculiarities of each Municipality and especially in the Municipalities where there is an outbreak is in cooperation with the Civil Protection services with the Mayors themselves.
In addition, he said that there is a package of initiatives, a protocol, which is implemented both by the corresponding Mayor and his services, as well as by the Civil Protection control mechanisms that focus on these areas for the implementation of the measures.
“Believe me, this model has been running for the last month, almost 40 days, with great success,” said Nikos Hardalias, citing as an example the municipalities of Attica – without naming them – with more than 75 active cases and a great dispersion. , which with the activation and implementation of the bilateral liability protocol today have been reduced to less than 20 active cases.
Sprouts hatch urban centers
Gikas Majorkinis, an assistant professor at the EKPA Faculty of Medicine and a member of the Expert Committee of the Ministry of Health, described large urban centers as breeding grounds for an epidemic, even proposing that citizens limit contacts to a close circle of relatives, speaking of the social phenomenon. »
He noted that many major urban centers around the world have been affected by the epidemic, citing Berlin, for example, with a population similar to Attica, which has recorded more than 12,000 cases and 226 deaths, and New York, with a population about 2 to 2.5 times. The population of Attica recorded 242,000 cases and almost 24,000 deaths and London, with a population of about 2.5 times the population of Attica, recorded some 40,000 cases and 7,000 deaths.
“These data show us that large urban centers are the Achilles heel in coping with the pandemic and are long-term incubators of the epidemic,” he said, adding that the measures taken for Attica are aimed at reducing the epidemic by significantly reducing the size and frequency of outbreaks, among people who do not know each other. “By reducing excessive transmission between strangers, we believe that we can also significantly increase the effectiveness of tracking,” he said.
Asked about the possibility of limiting our contacts to a close circle of family and friends, he spoke about the phenomenon of the “social bubble”. Create “social bubbles”, limit our social circle during this period. To meet only with friends and acquaintances and we can meet them as many times as we want. “Live in these ‘social bubbles’ for a while until the vaccines come.”
“Regarding the age distribution of the cases registered in the last week, most of the cases are between 25 and 34 years old and” these are today the top of the epidemic and then we have the age groups of 45 to 54 and 35 to 44, “he said. Majorkinis.
Pandemic breaks out in Attica
Of the 296 domestic cases, 30 are connected with known confluences (15 are connected with KOMY tracking of EODY at KYT Moria).
While 27 report recent trips within the country.
More details:
– 12 cases during the controls carried out at the country’s entry gates
– 2 imported cases that came voluntarily for control
– 197 cases in the Attica region, of which 7 are related to known outbreaks, while 24 are related to recent travel within the country
– 22 cases in PE Thessaloniki, of which 2 are associated with a known confluence, while 3 report recent travel within the country.
– 1 case in PE Argolida
– 4 cases in PE from acaya
– 1 case in PE Evros
– 1 case in PE De Ilia
– 3 cases in PE Imathia, of which 1 is associated with a known confluence
– 4 cases in PE Heraklion
– 1 case in PE Thera, associated with a known confluence
– 3 cases in PE Ioannina, of which 2 are connected by a known confluence
– 2 cases in PE Karditsa
– 2 cases in PE De Kefallinia
– 4 cases in PE Kozani
– 1 case in PE From Larissa
– 15 cases in PE Lesbos, all connected with a known influx at Moria Hospital)
– 1 case in PE Messinia
– 1 case in PE Mykonos
– 9 cases in PE Pella
– 6 cases in PE Pieria
– 1 case in PE De Preveza
– 3 cases in PE from Rethymno
– 2 cases in PE Rodas
– 2 cases in PE Samos, all connected with a known confluence
– 1 case in SP Sporades
– 2 cases in PE Trikala
– 1 case in PE Fthiotida
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