Greece’s health authorities announced on Monday 2,343 new coronavirus cases and 19 Covid-related deaths in the last 24 hours. The number of intubated Covid-patients in hospitals Intensive Care Units increased further to 338.
Still on Monday the number of PCR and Rapid tests are almost half than during regular working days due to the weekend.
At the Live Briefing on Monday, health authorities said that 91.2% of the intubated Covid-patients are unvaccinated or partially vaccinated and 8.58% were fully vaccinated.
Chairwoman of the National Vaccination Committee Maria Theodoridou urged parents to have their children vaccinated in order to be protected and return to their normal activities.
Theodoridou stressed that infections among children have increased and said that while children were infected at 7.5% in May 2021, the rate increased to 20% in July.
She created some confusion when she said that Greece is awaiting for the approval by the European Medicines Authority in order to proceed with the 3rd jab of vaccination for all over 60 years old.
Last week, Greek health officials said that the platform for appointments for the 3rd dose for immune-compromized citizens would open this week. she did not clarify whether authorities will wait for the EMA recommendation also for this groups of people.
Theodoridou also said that citizens should not wait for a 3rd dose that will include the Covid-19 variants as the development of such a vaccine will take a lot of time.
Some ten days ago, CEO of Pfizer Albert Bourla said that such a vaccine would need 3 months.
Vaccinations
Stand: August 29, 2021:
Of the 6,010,329 vaccinated citizens (57.7% of population with at least one dose):
297,832 Partially vaccinated
5,712,497 Fully vaccinated (54.8%)
Vaccinations tracker per region here.
Official coronavirus data, August 30
Tests in the last 24 hours: PCR 6,700 Rapid tests 42,902
Positivity of PCR & Rapid: 4.72%
blue: tests red: positivity
Rt: 1.05 from 1.09 last week.
Since the pandemic began, Greece has confirmed 583,658 infections (daily change: +0.4%). In the confirmed cases of the last 7 days, 214 infections are related to travel abroad and 1463 to other confirmed cases.
Rolling average: 3069 (3188 previous week)
51.1% of the infected are men.
There are 19 deaths recorded in the last 24 hours, the total of pandemic victims to 13,656. Of these, 95.3% had an underlying condition and/or were 70 years old.
Light blue: intubations pink: deaths
A total of 338 Covid-patients – from 334 a day earlier – are on ventilators in hospitals. Their median age is 64 years. 58.6% are men. 84% have an underlying condition and/or are aged 70 or more.
Accoridng to EODY among the intubated patients:
309 (91.42%) are unvaccinated or partly vaccinated
29 (8.58%) are fully vaccinated
According to EODY, intubated Covid-patients based on age group are:
- 0-17 : 1
- 18-39: 13
- 40-64: 156
- 65+ : 168
2,962 patients have been discharged from ICUs since the pandemic began.
214 Covid-19 patients were admitted to hospital in the last 24 hours (daily change: -24.11%). The average admission of patients with Covid-19 to hospitals over the last 7 days was 263.
Red: admissions Green: discharges
The median age of new infections is 39 years (range: 0.2 to 106 years), while the median age of the deceased is 78 (range: 0.2 to 106 years).
Geographic distribution August 30
Regional units epidemiological load: last 7 days – infections per 100,000 population.
Of the 2,343 new cases, 24 were detected at the entrance gates of the country and 9 among travelers already in the country.
The remaining cases are:
614 Attica
212 Thessaloniki
116 Achaia
86 Ilia
75 Messinia
69 Heraklio
50 Pieries
44 Kavala 42 Rhodes
Each 41 Evia, Kozani, Larissa
40 Evros
Each 35 Corinth, Lakonia
33 Fthiotida 32 Aitoloakarnania
30 Chania
28 Halkidiki 26 Corfu
Each 25 Argolida, Xanthi
Each 23 Viotia, Magnisia
Each 22 Drama, Chios
Each 21 Serres, Karditsa
20 Arcadia
Each 19 Imathia, Lesvos, Pella
18 Rethymno
Each 17 Thesprotia, Ioannina, Trikala
16 Kilkis 15 Thira 13 Samos
Each 12 Kastoria, Lasithi
Each 11 Mykonos, Naxos
10 Zakynthos
9 Kos 8 Florina 7 Rodopi
Each 6 Evrytania, Milos, Preveza, Sporades
Each 5 Arta, Paros, LEfkada
Each 4 Kalymnos, KEfalonia, Tinos, Limnos, Fokida
Each 3 Grevena, Ikaria, Syros
Each 2 Thassos, Andros
