Greece’s health authorities announced on Monday 56 new confirmed COVID-19 cases and 5 more deaths in the last 24 hours. According to the daily briefing on coronavirus, the number of total infections has risen to 1,212, while the death toll rose to 43.
“72 patients are intubated in the country’s hospitals, their average age is 65,” spokesman of National Health Organization Sotiris Tsiodras said. 81% of the intubated were men, he added. 50% of the intubated have underlying health problems.
Five patients have been discharged from ICUs.
Responding to journalists’ questions, Tsiodrias refused to give details about confirmed cases in suburbs of Athens and Attica, where the most cases are.
“Even if I say in X suburb there is one case, it makes no difference. The virus is among us.”
He also refused to mention estimations of the coronavirus spread, saying that they would falsely lead to complacent among the population that may stop comply with the restrictions.
Based on several mathematics models, Greece is a slow course of the virus spread, Tsaiodras said.
Head of Civil Protection Nikos Hardalias stressed that the majority of the citizens comply with the lockddown measures and restrictions. He warned, however, of even stricter measures.
“If some fail to understand the one fails to grasp the criticality of the moment then the most severe measures are one-way street,” he said.
On the daily briefing on Sunday, Hardalias claimed that there were a lot of phone calls over the weekend where people claimed that they needed to move ot their summer houses due to “collapse of the water supply system.”
More than 1,400 people were caught to violate the lockdown movement restrictions and were fined with 150 euros.
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