Greek health authorities confirmed late on Saturday that three more people were tested positive to coronavirus, raising the total number of infections in the country to seven. One of the people is in Thessaloniki and two in Athens.
According to first media information, the infected woman in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, is a friend of the patient zero. She is hospitalized in AHEPA, the same hospital as the patient zero and her infected son are since the middle of the week. No details about the health condition of the latest coronavirus patient have become known.
In Athens, tested positive is a man who had recently traveled to virus-hit region in Italy.
The second case refers also to a man, who was in close contact with the 3. confirmed case.
All infected patients are Greek nationals.
They are in isolation in designated hospitals.
38-year-old patient zero in Thessaloniki and two more infected women, aged 36 and 40, in Athens had traveled to northern Italy in the previous week.
Health authorities have tested a total of 153 people with whom the three women have been in contact. All 153 were tested negative, media reported earlier on Saturday.
Greek authorities have imposed extraordinary safety measures, among others, also cancelling Carnival events scheduled for the weekend.
Eleven schools in Athens were closed on Friday and were to disinfected as one of the patient is working a private tutor for school students and the other has three school children.
When the first case was confirmed on Wednesday, Greeks started to “raid ” supermarkets for panic purchases.
PS Supermarket shelves were full in our neighborhood today, although Saturday and a long weekend with Clean Monday. The panic is over…?
