Greece’s health authorities announced on Friday 2013 new coronavirus cases and 101 deaths in the last 24 hours. The number of intubated Covid-19 patients is at 607, i.e. one less than on Thursday, however this information does not mean much, as it is not known how many of the latest fatalities were intubated in hospitals across the country.
The total cases exceeded 100,000 and reached 101,287 on November 27.
The coronavirus has claimed so far 2,012 lives.
With average daily deaths at 100 since last weekend, Greece is on top of the worldwide list with daily new confirmed Covid-19 deaths per million people.
Data via ourworlddata
Among the latest fatalities is a 37-year-old man in northern Greece. He had no underlying health issues. He was tested positive on Thursday. Speaking to media, relatives and friends said that he complained about breathing problems, but the health authorities’ advice was that he would stay at home. He died on Friday morning.
Despite the decrease of daily reported cases, deaths are some 100 per day since November 21st.Among the latest fatalities are: one from age group 18-39 and 14 from age group 40-64.
Also one of the 3 patients airlifted from Drama to Athens on Thursday, died today.
The daily confirmed cases in the last few days may seem to have stabilized to short above 2000, a number still high, to allow lifting of the lockdown or opening of the schools.
At the live briefing on Friday evening, health authorities said that there are 25,000 active confirmed cases across the country.
The government is putting a price cap on Covid-19 tests, molecular PCR and Rapid Test.
Official data November 27
According to the official daily bulletin on Friday, 4865(4.8%) of the total coronavirus cases are related to travel abroad and 26718 (26.4%) are related to already known infection case.
The remaining infections are without known source.
53.1% of the infected are men.
The number of intubated patients in ICUs increased to 607 from 608 a day earlier. Their average age is 65, among them are 169 women. 79.9% have underlying health problems or are aged over 70.
538 people have been discharged from ICUs since the start of the pandemic in Greece.
101 more deaths in the last 24 hours increased death toll to 2102. Of the deceased 842 (+36) were women. The average age of the deceased was 80 and 97.0% of the deceased had an underlying condition or/and was over 70 years old.
Rolling weekly average cases at 2012 from 2661 last week.
Total tests since begin of outbreak are 2,311,870
Tests in the last 24 hours: 21,211 with 9.51% of them positive. A good, normal number with less reason for concerns is when positive is below 2%.
Daily growth at +2.0%
Geographical distribution November 27
Of the 2013 new coronavirus cases, 14 were detected at the country’s entry points.
14 of the new cases were detected at entry points; another 0 travelers already in the country sought laboratories after they developed symptoms.
The remaining cases are:
319 Attica
545 Thessaloniki
53 under investigation
106 Larissa
97 Serres, 80 Magnisia,
Each 73 Pella, Halkidiki
70 Pieria 65 Imathi8a 51 Kavala
46 Xanthi 40 Drama 39 Kilkis
34 Florina 26 Evros
Each 22 Achaia, Heraklio, Kozani
20 Karditsa
Each19 Ioannina, Trikala
18 Aitoloakarnania 16 Chania 15 Grevena
Each 12 Arta, Corinth, Rodopi
10 Lesvos
7 Ilia 6 Kastoria
Each 5 Rhodes, Evia, Messinia, Rethymno
Each 4 Argolida, Fthiotida
Each 3 Viotia, Corfu
Each 2 Kalymnos, Kefalonia, Lakonia, Lasithi, Lefkada, Limnos
Each 1 Evritania, Thira, Fokida, Chios
Maps in comparison: November 27, 26
Map of infections per 100,000 people in the last ten days, according to regional units – based on infected permanent or temporary residence – more charts here.
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