Greece’s health authorities announced on Thursday 2,696 new coronavirus cases and 9 Covid-related deaths in the past 24 hours. The number of intubated Covid-patients in hospitals Intensive Care Units increased to 157, an increase of 27 patients in a week.
PCR and Rapid tests in the past 24 hours hit a record of 102,034 tests.
Live Briefing
At the Live Briefing on Thursday, health experts warned of the increased epidemiological load observed on islands that are favorite touristic destinations. the load across the country appears stabilized, however, with a positivity rate at 3.26% which is considered as high.at high levels
Member of the Epidemiologists’ Committee and professor for Children Epidemiology Vana Papaevangelou drew attention on the situation on the islands and said that on Paros the positivity rate is 5.5%, on Mykonos 4.27%, on Tinos 4.2% and 3.76 in Rethymno, Crete.
The rate of infected tourists is very low, below 1%, she added.
The median age of the new infections remains low at 25 years old. She note, though, that the infections rate among people aged below 39 has decreased.
Papaevangelou noted also that there is a big increase of new infections in Thessaloniki.
She stressed that due to the vaccinations there are much fewer hospital admissions, much fewer in ICUs and deaths when compared the current epidemiological load with previous one before the vaccines.
“99% of those hospitalized were unvaccinated or had only vaccine dose” the professor underlined adding that 10% of the unvaccinated will need hospitalization.
She added that based on track and tracing data, the main reason for infections among the youth are meetings and night entertainment, while for the older age groups are the work and family meetings.
Head of Civil Protection Nikos announced the weekly update of the Covid-MAP where some regions were placed in higher risk level and a few ones in lower. He warned residents and visitors of the islands of Mykonos and Ios that restrictions will be imposed. He warned also another 4 islands and some touristic destinations on Crete. More details on a separate post.
Vaccinations
Stand July 29, 2021:
5.655.786 Εμβολιασμένοι πολίτες (54,3%) 10.362.660 δόσεις 621.044 Εμβολιασμένοι μερικώς (18.560 MO) 5.034.742 Εμβολιασμένοι πλήρως (42.906 MO) (48,3%))
Of the 5,655,786 vaccinated citizens (54.3% of population with at least one dose):
621,044 Partially vaccinated
5,033,742 Fully vaccinated (48.3%)
Vaccinations tracker per region here.
Official coronavirus data, July 29
Tests in the last 24 hours: PCR 15,161 Rapid tests 86,873
Positivity of PCR & Rapid: 2.64%
blue: tests red: positivity
Rt: 1.16 from 123 last week.
Since the pandemic began, Greece has confirmed 487,709 infections (daily change: +0.6%). In the confirmed cases of the last 7 days, 120 infections are related to travel abroad and 1577 to other confirmed cases.
Rolling average: 2574 (2568 previous week)
51.2% of the infected are men.
There are 9 deaths recorded in the last 24 hours, the total of pandemic victims to 12,935. Of these, 95.1% had an underlying condition and/or were 70 years old.
Light blue: intubations Pink: deaths
A total of 157 Covid-patients – from 144 a day earlier – are on ventilators in hospitals. Their median age is 65 years. 61.8% are men. 82.8% have an underlying condition and/or are aged 70 or more.
2,802 patients have been discharged from ICUs since the pandemic began.
173 Covid-19 patients were admitted to hospital in the last 24 hours (daily change: -11.73%). The average admission of patients with Covid-19 to hospitals over the last 7 days was 167.
Red: admissions Green: discharges
The median age of new infections is 41 years (range: 0.2 to 106 years), while the median age of the deceased is 78 (range: 0.2 to 106 years).
Geographic distribution July 29
Regional units epidemiological load: last 7 days – infections per 100,000 population.
New: Crete listed as one region
Of the 2696 new cases, 9 were detected at the entrance gates of the country and 5 among travelers already in the country.
The remaining cases are:
905 Attica
308 Thessaloniki
120 Heraklio
108 Chania
94 Rhodes
72 Achaia
61 Corinth 60 Rethymno
48 Larissa 38 Evia
Each 37 Evros, Kozani
34 Argolida 33 Halkida
30 Corfu 28 Aitoloakarnania
Each 25 Ioannina, Fthiotida
24 Messinia 22 Viotia
Each 20 Mykonos, Magnisia
Each 19 Zakynthos, Imathia, Florina
Each 18 Kavala, Lesvos
Each 17 Karditsa, Chios
15 Kos 14 Lefkada
Each 13 Lakonia, Pieria, Serres
12 Pella
Each 11 Drama, Thira, Paros
Each 10 Arcadia, Naxos, Lasithi, Trikala
Each 9 Ilia, Preveza
Each 8 Kilkis, Rodopi, Fokida
Each 6 Tinos, Xanthi
Each 5 Thesprotia, Kastoria, Kefalonia
4 Syros
Each 3 Kalymnos, Milos, Samos
2 Arta
Each 1 Grevena, Evrytania, Thasos, Ikaria, Sporades
everything red now on your map. How does this come? Havent you vaccinated enough. No problem the third jab will do the trick.