Greece’s health authorities announced on Thursday 6,801 coronavirus cases and 69 Covid-related deaths in the past 24 hours. The number of intubated Covid-patients in hospitals has surpassed 500 and increased to 503.
As ICUs capacities have been reached in many hospitals outside Athens, non-Covid patients have difficulties to received the proper medical aid. In Volos, a young vicitm of a traffic accident had to wait for 17 hours for an ICU bed. He was intubated withheavy head injuries outside the ICU.
At the weekly Live Briefing on the course of the coronavirus pandemic on Thursday, health authorities pointed out at the big spread of the pandemic in the country, stressing that infections increased by 50% in the last week.
Average age of the new cases is 36.
Active coronavirus cases exceed 47,000 across the country, while 1 in 4 cases is detected in Attica.
Active cases in Thessaloniki exceed 7,500 and in Larissa 3,379.
See also: COVID-MAP in Greece updated on Nov 10.
There is an increase of Covid-tests, with approximately 2% of the population to be tested daily.
The rolling average of positivity is 2.2%.
3,000 Covid-patients are hospitalized and therefore it is expected to see an increase of intubated patients.
Alternate Health Minister Mina Gaga spoke of a “dramatic situation” at Greece’s public hospitals, while hospitalizations in ICUs increase the oxygen needs with the tanks emptying in zero time.
Oxygen tanks empty within a single day instead of in one or two weeks,” Gaga said [but she did not disclose why the government did not do much to shield the public hospitals in advance, when everybody was seeing the fourth wave of the pandemic coming already in mid-October].
Official EODY data Νοbember 11
Tests in past 24 hours:
PCR 19,278 RAPID 325,190
Positivity PCR+RAPID: 1.97%
Since the pandemic began, Greece has confirmed 815,068 infections (daily change: +0.8%). Of the confirmed cases of the last 7 days, 131 infections are related to travel from abroad and 2,716 to other confirmed cases.
Rolling average 6780 from 5168 last week.
Rt: 1.27 from 1.12 last week
67 deaths recorded in the last 24 hours, brought the total of pandemic victims to 16,560. Of these, 95.3% had an underlying condition and/or were aged 70 or over.
503 Covid-patients are on ventilators in hospitals from 489 a day earlier.. Their median age is 65 years, 58.5% are men. 82.7% have an underlying condition and/or are aged 70 or over.
Of the total patients on intubation, 416 (82.7%) are unvaccinated or partly vaccinated and 87 (17.3%) are fully vaccinated.
Intubated Covid-patients per age group:
0-17: 0
18-30: 20 ↑
40-64: 219 ↑
65+ : 264 ↑
3,387 have been discharged from ICUs since the pandemic began.
413 Covid-19 patients were admitted to hospitals in the last 24 hours (daily change: +0.47%). The average admission of patients with Covid-19 to hospitals over the last 7 days was 395.
The median age of new infections is 38 years (range: 0.2 to 106 years), while the median age of the deceased is 78 (range: 0.2 to 106 years).
Vaccinations
Stand Nov 9
Party vaccinations 64.7% of the population
Fully vaccinated: 61.7%
Booster shot since Sept 13: 491,623
Vaccination tracker per region in Greek here.
Geographic distribution Νovember 11
Of the 6,801 new coronavirus cases, 8 were detected at the entry gates of the country and 7 among travelers already in Greece.
The remaining cases are:
1629 Attica
1154 Thessaloniki
160 under investigation
MAP: Infections last 14 days per 100,000 population
Nov 11 same stand as Nov 9
Nov 10 same stand as Nov 9
Nov 8: same stand as Nov 5
Nov 6: same stand as Nov 5
More details on EODY daily bulletin in Greek here.
More information on coronavirus in Greece here.
I think some of the figures quoted for regions have not been updated from yesterday, e.g. the four regions of Crete are identical to yesterday. Other sources have different numbers. I haven’t checked all the regions.
possible