Greece’s health authorities announced on Wednesday evening 1,517 new coronavirus cases and 44 Covid-related deaths in the last 24 hours. The number of intubated Covid-patients has further decreased to 547.
Live Briefing
At the live briefing on Wednesday, health minister Vassilis Kikilias said that the average of confirmed infected cases is at 1,775, cleary below 2,000.
The average age of infected citizens is at 37 years old, while there is increase in younger age groups.
Positivity rate is constantly below 4%
Greece will continue vaccinations with AstraZeneca without revising the age limits, despite Thrombosis syndromes mostly in people below 50. However, the National Vaccination Committee said women 30-49 could use vaccines with mRNA technology.
A 17-year-old boy infected with the coronavirus has been treated in ICU of an Athens hospital. The patient did not have any underlying health issues, media reported.
Vaccinations
Stand May 25, 2021:
Citizens with at least one dose: 3,357,696
Fully vaccinated: 1,836,773 (17.5% of population)
Vaccinations tracker per region here.
Official coronavirus data, May 26
Tests in the last 24 hours: PCR 15,869 Rapid tests 35,123
Positivity of PCR & Rapid: 2.95%
Rt: 0.82 from 0.86 last week
Since the pandemic began, Greece has confirmed 395,093 infections (daily change: +0.4%). In the confirmed cases of the last 7 days, 27 infections are related to travel from abroad and 2036 to other confirmed cases.
51.2% of the infected are men.
There are 44 deaths recorded in the last 24 hours, bringing the total of pandemic victims to 11,016. Of these, 95.5% had an underlying condition and/or were 70 years old.
A total of 547 Covid-patients -from 556 a day earlier – are on ventilators in hospitals. Their median age is 67 years. 62.3% are men. 84.6% have an underlying condition and/or are aged 70 or more.
2,391 patients have been discharged from ICUs since the pandemic began.
250 Covid-19 patients were admitted to hospital in the last 24 hours (daily change: +28.87%). The average admission of patients with Covid-19 to hospitals over the last 7 days was 244.
Admissions (red) -Discharges (green)
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 May 26
Of the 1517 new cases, 0 were detected at the entrance gates of the country and 0 among travelers already in the country.
The remaining cases are:
762 Attica
163 Thessaloniki
51 Larissa
39 Aitoloakarnania 32 Achaia
26 Rethymno 25 Heraklio
24 Evia
Each 23 Viotia, Chania
Each 20 Ilia, Magnisia
18 Fthiotida 16 Imathia
14 Corfu
Each 13 Ioannina, Pella
Each 12 Corinth, Pieria
Each 10 Lesvos, Serres, Trikala
Each 9 Kilkis, Xanthi
Each 8 Kozani, Messinia
6 Florina
Each 5 Grevena, Arcadia, Rhodes, Evros, Kavala, Kalymnos, Rodopi
Each 4 Drama, Karditsa, Lasithi
Each 3 Argolida, Evrytania, Kastoria
Each 2 Zakynthos, Thesprotia, Thira, Naxos, Lakonia, Preveza, Halkidiki
Each 1 Thassos, Kefalonia, Andros, Syros, Paros, Chios
Thank you so much, KTG, for continuing your detailed reports! Unvaluable from abroard! Must be a lot of work! Can follow my favorite islands progress in this horrible pandemia. Glad to see it is progressing in the right direction all over Greece. Maybe I will be able to visit at least one favorite this year, God villingly!