Greece’s health authorities announced on Friday evening 1,585 new coronavirus cases and 40 Covid-related deaths in the last 24 hours. The number of intubated Covid-patients has further decreased to 521.
Live Briefing
At the Live Briefing on Friday, health experts stressed that the number of daily infections, deaths and intubated Covid-patients is constantly decreasing.
However, they urged citizens to comply further with safety measures as the pandemic is still here.
Head of Civil Protection Nikos Hardalias warned that in 5 municipalities the number of infections has increased in the last 5 days.
There municipalities are: Rhodes, Lsvos, Syros, Troizinia (-Methana/Saronic islands) and Chania (Crete).
The number of active cases has increased by 43% in Rhodes, 36% in Lesvos, 50% in Syros, 26% in Chania. In Troizinia, active cases have tripled in last 5 days, Hardalias said.
He urged residents on these islands and municipalities to caution and implementation of protection measures.
Deputy Health Minister Vasislis Kontozamanis confirmed that Athenians travel to nearby islands to receive vaccination with single-jab vaccine of Johnson & Johnson. He said that this does not put pressure to the J&J availability on the islands.
Daily Infections
Deaths (pink) – Intubations (blue)
Vaccinations
Stand May 27, 2021:
Citizens with at least one dose: 3,474,679 (33.3% of population)
Fully vaccinated: 1,924,490 (18.5% of population)
Total vaccinations (doses): 5,305,355
Vaccinations tracker per region here.
Official coronavirus data, May 28
Tests in the last 24 hours: PCR 14,609 Rapid tests 34,380
Positivity of PCR & Rapid: 3.24%
Rt: 0.82 from 0.86 last week
Since the pandemic began, Greece has confirmed 398,898 infections (daily change: +0.5%). In the confirmed cases of the last 7 days, 28 infections are related to travel from abroad and 2101 to other confirmed cases.
51.2% of the infected are men.
There are 40 deaths recorded in the last 24 hours, bringing the total of pandemic victims to 11,995. Of these, 95.5% had an underlying condition and/or were 70 years old.
A total of 521 Covid-patients -from 540 a day earlier – are on ventilators in hospitals. Their median age is 67 years. 61.8% are men. 85.2% have an underlying condition and/or are aged 70 or more.
2,411 patients have been discharged from ICUs since the pandemic began.
231 Covid-19 patients were admitted to hospital in the last 24 hours (daily change: +12.14%). The average admission of patients with Covid-19 to hospitals over the last 7 days was 227.
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 28
Last 7 days: Regions with highest epidemiological load per 100,000 population
Of the 1585 new cases, 6 were detected at the entrance gates of the country and 3 among travelers already in the country.
The remaining cases are:
804 Attica
140 Thessaloniki
52 Larissa
46 Ioannina 42 Aitloakarnania
32 Achaia 30 Heraklio
27 Magnisia 25 Fthiotida
Each 18 Viotia, Ilia
Each 17 Corfu, Corinth, Rethymno, Chania
15 Evia 13 Messinia
Each 12 Kavala, Kilkis, Pella, Serres
Each 11 Arcadia, Pieria
Each 10 Kozani, Trikala, Florina
9 Imathia
Each7 Naxos, Lesvos
6 Halkidiki
Each 5 Argolida, Evros, Karditsa, Syros, Rodopi
Each 4 Drama, Rhodes, Lasithi
Each 3 Grevena, Xanthi, Chios
Each 2 Kalymnos, Lakonia, Preveza
Each 1 Arta, Thassos, Kastoria, Thira, Mykonos, Paros, Samos
So stop the influx of tourists — I haven’t seen one single tourist wearing a mask in the last few weeks (and every single permanent resident of Crete has to wear one or get fined). It’s not rocket science !!! So — I’m stocking up my freezer ready for the next big lockdown once the tourist season ends.
Joanna, you are very negative. All over Europe the numbers improve and vaccination is progressing. So time to get back to normal. And in the Netherlands, you don’t wear a mask outside, only in the shops.
So, let’s open Europe and let tourists come to Greece, we need it (as I’m not on retirement)!
Preveli, you need to look at why the numbers are going down in greece …..it is NOT because covid has gone away! You are going to have the perfect covid storm here. The numbers depend on testing ……it goes down every week! hence the positive numbers go down. There is no point having a thriving tourist season when everyone is ill and dying. Think about it.
Testing goes down because when people are not ill they don’t get tested.
It is clear that vaccination is the reason that numbers of cases, hospitalisations and deaths are going down.
Preveli, numbers are not going down everywhere. Thanks to KTG I track the numbers on Crete,which is Greece’s biggest tourist destination and where I live. Measured per 100,000 population in a 14 day period both Heraklion and Chania are approximately flat at around 200, Rethymnon is steadily increasing and is now around 250 and only Lasithi is going down but is still above 50. The average for the whole of Crete is also approximately flat at around 200. These are extremely high figures to allow completely free movement.
I agree – we were in our local town last Saturday and although the Greeks were wearing masks (some under their chin) the foreign tourists has no mask at all! NOTHING!
Last week we learnt of a noticeable reduction in PCR and rapid testing from the week before, namely a weekly reduction of 47,255 tests. There were 12,256 less PCR tests and 34,999 less rapid tests.
This week the testing falls further from that new low figure. On top of the above reduction there was a further reduction of 24,703 tests. There were 7,044 less PCR tests and 17,659 less rapid tests.
So in the past 7 days there were 71,958 less tests than the week in which we opened for tourism.
Certainly one way to keep the positive numbers down!
Joanna, you have every right to be worried when most tourists do not even carry a mask and the police are taking NO action against the offenders. Naxos reported its worst month ever in April with 46 officially announced cases. So far in May, there have been 70 recorded cases on Naxos but we are told that the virus is beaten and a tourist dollar is worth a thousand masks however many deaths it takes to pretend that Greece has won the Covid war !!
Shopping in Rethymnon, Crete this afternoon. Tourists in abundance not wearing masks and not a police in sight. How do you recognise the locals? Easy, they are the ones wearing masks! There is no point in the government putting safety measures in place if no one is going to enforce them. It would be interesting to see how many (if any) fines have been issued recently!