A shocking new negative record in Greece: 34 Covid-19 patients died in the past 24 hours, health authorities announced on Saturday evening. The new confirmed coronavirus cases are 2,556 and the number of Covid-19 patients currently intubated has reached 207.
Health Ministry spokesman and professor for Epidemiology Hygiene Gkijas Majiorkinis said during the live briefing of Friday that the country’s health care system can afford up to 350″ Covid-19 patients in ICUs.
Total cases have reached 54,810 and death toll 749.
Current active cases are estimated at 23,000 with 80% to be of “unknown transmission source.”
80,000 virus carriers in Attica
Experts said that based on Attica’s sewage analysis 80,000 people are currently infected in the country’s most populated regional unit, home of over 4 million people.
Speaking to Skai TV, professor for Analytical Chemistry Nikos Thomaidis part of the scientific team monitoring the viral load in the sewage of Attica since the outbreak said that “it is increasing alarmingly.”
According to the latest data, there is currently a coronary transmission of about 1.5 – 2%, ie about 60,000 – 80,000 active infections in the community of 4.2 million people.
“Every day we take a sample from Psytallia, analyze the virus load and hand over the results to the Public Health Committee of the Ministry of Health,” Thomaidis said. He noted that in recent days the tests show that the viral load is consistently high and that “we are on the rise of the 2nd big wave” of the pandemic in the country.
He said that the team’s finding do not match with those of the infections announced by health authorities “because we take a sample and see how many carriers among the population we will approximately find, while EODY is purposefully checking for suspicious cases.”
Lockdown
The dramatic increase of infections, intubations and consequently deaths in the last 5 days forced the Greek government to impose a general lockdown as of Saturday, November 7, 2020, and for three weeks.
More information on lockdown restrictions and what citizens need to do to go out here.
Official data November 7
According to the official daily bulletin on Saturday, 4386 (8%) of the total coronavirus cases are related to travel abroad and 15400 (28.1%) are related to already known infection case.
54.3% of the infected are men.
The number of intubated patients in ICUs increased to 207 !!! from 196 day earlier. Their average age is 66, among them are 45 women. 86.5% have underlying health problems or are aged over 70.
315 people have been discharged from ICUs since the start of the pandemic in Greece.
Thirty-four more deaths in the last 24 hours increased death toll to 749. Of the deceased 298 were women. The average age of the deceased was 79 and 96.3% of the deceased had an underlying condition or/and was over 70 years old.
Total tests since begin of outbreak are 1,926,544.
Tests in the last 24 hours: 24,086 with 10.61% of them positive. A good, normal number with less reason for concerns is when positive is below 2%.
Daily growth at +4.9%
Geographical distribution November 6
Of the 2556 new coronavirus cases, 15 were detected at the country’s entry points.
15 of the new cases were detected at entry points; another 2 travelers already in the country sought laboratories after they developed symptoms.
The remaining cases are:
637 Attica
560 Thessaloniki
84 under investigation
151 Drama
137 Larissa
74 Halkidiki 69Pella, 63 Pieria
61 Serres, 56 Kavala, 52 Karditsa
51 Imathia, 46 Magnisia 41 Xanthi
36 Florina 35 Lesvos 33 Kozani 31 Evros
29 Trikala 25 Heraklio 23 Fokida
Each 22 Achaia, Rodopi
20 Kilkis 17 Grevena
Each 13 Rhodes, Corfu, Fthiotida
13 Chios 12 Chania 11 Corinth 10 Arta
Each 2 Zakynthos, Lasithi, Argolida, Lefkada
Each 1 Arkadia, KArpathos, Kos, Kalymnos, Andros, Syros
Maps comparison November 7, 6, and 5
Map of infections in the last ten days, according to regional units – based on infected permanent or temporary residence – more charts here in pdf in Greek.
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