Daily confirmed coronavirus cases rose to 3313 on Tuesday Greece’s health authorities announced earlier today. The number of daily infections increased as also the number of tests reached the average level as on work days.after High is also the number of Dovid-deaths, with 92 patients to have lost their lives in the past 24 hours. The number of intubated patients stands at 813.
Government officials said on Tuesday that the sms to 13033 to exit home will be scrapped and the inter-municipality movement will be allowed from May 3 when restaurants and cafes open again after a break of 6 months due to the pandemic.
Media report that the new lockdown relaxation will be announced tomorrow, Wednesday.
Daily Infections
Daily Deaths pink – Intubations blue
Tests (PCR & Rapid) blue Positivity red
Official coronavirus data, April 27
Tests in the last 24 hours: PCR 24,488 Rapid tests 57,366
Positivity of PCR & Rapid: 4.31%
Since the pandemic began, Greece has confirmed 337,723 infections (daily change: +0.4%). In the confirmed cases of the last 7 days, 69 infections are related to travel from abroad and 2,662 to other confirmed cases.
There are also 92 deaths recorded in the last 24 hours, bringing the total of pandemic victims to 10,179. Of these, 95.5% had an underlying condition and/or were 70 years old.
A total of 813 -from 811 a day earlier – patients are on ventilators in hospitals. Their median age is 68 years. 62.5% are men. 85.5% have an underlying condition and/or are aged 70 or more.
2,070 patients have been discharged from ICUs since the pandemic began.
367 Covid-19 patients were admitted to hospital in the last 24 hours (daily change: -18.63%). The average admission of patients with Covid-19 to hospitals over the last 7 days was 464.
The median age of new infections is 44 years (range: 0.2 to 106 years), while the median age of the deceased is 79 (range: 0.2 to 106 years).
Geographic distribution April 27
Of the 3313 new cases, 6 were detected at the entrance gates of the country and 1 was among travelers already in the country.
The remaining cases are:
1581 Attica
418 Thessaloniki
89 Larissa
77 Kozani
68 Evia 66 Heraklio
65 Achaia 64 Magnisia
48 Imathia 46 Serres
41 Corinth
Each 37 Viotia, Xanthi
32 Trikala 30 Kavala
29 Fthiotida 27 Ioannina
Each 24 Drama, Kilkis
22 Ilia
Each 21 Karditsa, Pella
Each 20 Arcadia, Chania
16 Florina
Each 15 Aitoloakarnania, Pieria, Halkidiki
Each 14 Evros, Kastoria
13 Rethymno
Each 12 Argolida, Kalymnos, Lasithi, Preveza
9 Messinia
Each 8 Grevena, Rodopi
Each 7 Kos, Lesvos
Each 6 rhodes, Corfu, Fokida
Each 5 Zakynthos, Thassos, Lakonia
4 Naxos
Each 3 Arta, Evrytania, Thira
2 Chios
Each 1 Thesprotia, Lefkada, Limnos, Sporades
How many infected cases were detected with rapid tests?
How many of the people that got positive with rapid tests, were retested with PCR?
If I have to guess, the real positivity rate must be between 10-14% at the moment. For comparasion, Germany had 12,4% on average for 7 days before 22.04, and they do not include the rapid tests.
It is rather important to know this number since it gives you a better idea on what is trend than just raw numberof cases. In fact, since the number of tests made rises during peak of wave, it will be the first one to start dropping. Possibly 1 week ahead of raw number.
Perhaps this is the reason they decided to open Greece?
rather: the vaccines
I haven’t seen PCR positivity and Rapid positivity reported separately since March 8th, other than randomly on here on April 18th when PCRs were reported as 22.3% positive and Rapids as 1.66% positive.