New confirmed coronavirus cases sharply increased to 43 in the last 24 hours with 36 of them to have been detected at the entrance gates of Greece, health authorities announced on Monday evening. The total infections increased to 3,562 with 54.6% of the infected to be men.
One should take into consideration that authorities did not recorded all new cases on Sunday, – just 9 – and most likely transferred the number from Sunday to Monday.
Authorities announced no new death on Monday for the sixth consecutive day. However, one 83-year-old woman reportedly died in a hospital in Athens after the daily Covid-19 bulletin was issued.
New Cases – Geographical distribution
General information July 6
According to the Health Ministry statement on Monday, of the total 3,565 cases, 852 are related to travel abroad, 1,936 are related to an already known case. The rest are not related to travel or another known case or are still under investigation.
54.8% of the infected are men. Average age of the infected in 49 with age range between 0 and 102.
Number of intubated patients in ICUs is 11. Their average age is 62 years old, among them are 5 women. 90.9% of the patients have underlying health issues or are over 70 years old.
119 patients have been discharged from the ICUs since the beginning of the outbreak.
Number of coronavirus-related deaths stands at 192.
Among the deceased were 61 women.
The average age of the deceased was 76 with range age between 35 and 102.
and 95.8% had underlying health issues and/or were over 70 years old.
According to the Health Ministry, a total of 340,328 coronvirus tests have been conducted since beginning of the year, 5,716 (1.71%) are positive. The data include several tests conducted on a single patient, as well.
34,225 (10.1% tests have been conducted among flight passengers since June 12, the EODY statement said, adding that 62 are positive.
The data released daily by the Greek National Health Organization are not always complete and therefore kind of frustrating.
For example, they release tests conducted at the airports only, while tests are being carried out also at the border-crossings, and there is often confusion with the tests.
Wow. 43 new infections on 3562 total infections is a whopping increase of …….just 1.2%….hardly a “sharp increase”
192 dead on a population of 10.720.000 is a death rate of a whopping…..0.00179%
95.8% of those unfortunate dead has underlying health issues and were over 70 years old.
The hysteria surrounding this virus is incredible.
You should not take the successful Greek management of the virus as a paradigm for the world, or even for the EU. Look at the UK and USA for more problematic cases in supposedly well organised countries.
Moreover, the issue is not so much the case fatality rate, but the statistic of excess deaths. In Greece, the effect of the lockdown was to reduce deaths from infectious diseases to way below the weekly average for the last decade. In other words, Greece has excess lives over this period, relative to expected deaths. The UK, however, has massive excess deaths — mostly of old people in nursing homes, ill people in hospitals, other vulnerable people with chronic health conditions (sometimes unknown) and younger, healthy doctors and nurses on the front line of the health management of the virus.
Without creating some sort of hysteria about it, the lockdown in Greece would not have been a success and Greece would look as bad as the UK, or even worse like Ecuador with dead bodies piling up on the streets and funeral homes and cemeteries unable to process all the dead. Horrible.
Even with the bad statistics in the UK and the US and the very bad approaches there, death rates there are around 0.04 to 0.07 percent. How bad is it to lose a loved one to this disease (and I have family members that are the perfect candidate) this is still very low. Even if there are higher excess death rates.
The vast majority of people that died were either old and/or has underlying health issues. These are the groups that run the highest risks. Younger people with health issues also. The virus seems to specifically target T-cells, killing them and depleting a person’s immune system ability to fight the virus.
Yes it is a bad disease. No, it is not worth with these death rates -even if there are bad excess death rates- to burn economies completely into the ground. Protect the vulnerably, let people work from home, have restrictions but don’t destroy the economy because that opens up a whole lot of other trouble.
People unfortunately die but we as societies can’t seem to cope with that idea.
I hate to break this to you, but many have moved on here in the US. It will be with us until a vaccine is here and people have gotten on with their lives. We have tested 40 million here, almost 10 times more than the closest EU country (Germany is at 5 million tests).
The US economy is getting going again, the trillions of dollars in social programs have been helpful, and people are gathering. I did not, but I saw plenty folks at the beaches this July 4th holiday and at parties together. It does not affect them. You can point fingers and sound alarms all you want.
This idea that America is gravely affected by the rise in numbers is not very informed or sophisticated understanding of the real situation; look at deaths, they are all down, as are hospital cases.
We also will have developed immunity before a vaccine comes, of which we have invested a lot of money with several companies (Did you see the 1.7 billion award today to Novavax?).
We are in better shape than the media, who have a business model based on fear divisiveness, anger and surprise, would have people think. And I am saying this as someone who did not vote for Trump, who leans conservative, and who will vote for Biden. I am generally a-political in this. The reality is not really what is being portrayed. A lot of people do not like Trump, especially the EU. The travel ban among other things is more a reflection of things like tariffs, the global tech tax on American companies that the EU is fighting with America over, and other soured relationships. The covid situation is being used more as political weapon, which I understand. But you have to take a measured view of these things.
I’m sorry, but you are posting neoliberal propaganda. You also seem to be innumerate. The number of people tested is not the issue: it is the number tested relative to the population of the country that matters. Also, whether testing is available on demand or somehow restricted is an issue. Your claim that 40 million tests means anything is totally out of context, and therefore worthless.
If you think that the economy (money) is all that matters then this is a clear political position — well to the Right. The same applies to your interpretation of statistical data on deaths. What actually matters is how the virus has affected people’s lives, and there is no research available on this for any country. Media reports are sensationalising things, but this does not mean that there is nothing to consider.
Your claim about a vaccine is also seriously misinformed. First, there is no guarantee that a vaccine will ever be available, and increasingly expert opinion is that even if one were developed it would probably not protect those who are most vulnerable. Moreover, there is no evidence that immunity has developed anywhere: this is another spurious right wing claim (and formed the basis of UK policy until Johnson panicked earlier this year). It is far from certain that immunity will ever develop.
Finally, the idea that the ban on US residents flying to the EU is based on international trade relations is just hilarious! It is based on European perception that the US is handling things badly, and we do not wish to suffer the health costs of your money-obsessed bias. It is true that the world is going to have a bad depression this year — already the global shock is massive, and affecting some developing countries much worse than developed ones. Ideally, the virus would have been handled differently, and those needing protection isolated while others carried on working. In practice, the evidence shows that a large proportion of people in work were vulnerable — especially in manual and low-skill jobs — and that no government had the technical capacity to manage much at all. The choice therefore ended up being almost binary: either do nothing (and let a lot of people die) so that the economy is not affected; or engage in remarkable emergency measures to protect people’s lives and worry about the economy afterwards.
Most civilised countries chose the latter option. We did not expect a country dominated by big business and the worship of money — the USA — to do the same as Europe. Despite the massive economic hit, most people in Europe (even economists such as myself) agree that human lives matter more than money.
You DO understand that the importing country pays the tariff? Your political stripes are VERY obviously showing here. I’m amazed at the persistence of people to spout “alternative facts ” in the face of overwhelming scientific proof. Don’t give me your argument that figures can be skewed. Works both ways. This whole diatribe reminds me of a “joke ” my grandmother used to tell me about the mother whose son marched with the left foot when everyone else used the right. When it was mentioned to her she insisted that everyone else was wrong.
Part of the nature of a virus is that it morphs and adapts. Herd immunity will not develop before a vaccine. Indeed there is no such thing as herd immunity even with older diseases. Hence the resurgence of measles and whooping cough. The minute people stop vaccinating any herd immunity starts disappearing. And should a vaccine be made, there will be those who will refuse to get it based on a study proven wrong multiple times and that the creator of the study admitted to being paid to report those findings. Yet some celebrity opens their mouth and that’s ok then because they MUST be doctors too!
There’s a reason the Canadian border is still closed to the US. Don’t talk to me about dairy tariffs. We don’t want that stuff because it’s full of hormones and other things NOT in ours. As to the 40 million tests, it’s not even 1/4 of your population. All countries are underreported, this is obvious and I’m sure that people who have died of covid are having their deaths attributed to any preexisting condition. Italy did this at the beginning. We won’t have accurate numbers until contact tracing is implemented. But people will bemoan lack of privacy. Yeah cuz Amazon and Google don’t already know everything about you.
Your post shows that not only do you not care about yourself, you also don’t care about others.
I had predicted there would be no real revenue gained along with an uptick in cases specifically with Slavic and poor countries.
Greece does not have any real economists: To a T I predicted this a month ago and said it was the wrong strategy.
No matter what, you will have an uptick in cases when opening for tourism, we know that. However the risk -reward for letting all these low class countries with lousy health systems and shoddy reporting would never be viewed as a smart investment anywhere, except of course Greece. Now they are talking to Egypt today about reopening.
What revenue are you going to get from these countries?
If you take the risk with rich countries, you will see a return on investment. Playing around with these demographics does not help bring revenue, only new cases. Get a deal done with the US asap and you will see the economy benefit already. The major hubs that bring tourists to Greece are in New York and Chicago; two places with very low cases now and a flattened curve, similar to the EU. Get it going and the money will come.