Greece’s health authorities announced on Monday 6,950 coronavirus cases and 72 Covid-related deaths in the past 24 hours. The number of intubated Covid-patients in hospitals has increased further to 551.
Note that tests in past 24 hours are much fewer than working days due to the weekend.
As pressure on public hospitals remains high, the Greek government is to send requisition documents to private doctors who have not voluntarily registered to help with the pandemic. The Health ministry is to review the number of registrations and move accordingly tonight or tomorrow morning.
Media reported earlier on Monday that some over 20 doctors have registered but that health care system would need over 100.
At the Live Briefing on Monday, the president of the National Vaccination Committee, Maria Theodoridou, said that also those who have been fully vaccinated and fell ill before or afterwards with Covid-19 will need a booster shot. More details about the time when the group that contracted Covid-19 after vaccination will receive the booster shot are to be announced soon.
She added that hundreds of vaccinated citizens are ill with Covid, however with mild symptoms.
“However, 10%-15% of vaccinated elderly with underlying health issues can fell serious ill with Covid.,” she stressed.
Thedoridou said that it looks as if vaccination against Covid-19 will be: 3 jabs plus 1 booster shot each year.
Official EODY data Νοbember 15
Tests in past 24 hours:
PCR 7,091 RAPID 100,707
Positivity PCR+RAPID: 6.45%
Since the pandemic began, Greece has confirmed 838,824 infections (daily change: +0.8%). Of the confirmed cases of the last 7 days, 105 infections are related to travel from abroad and 2,727 to other confirmed cases.
Rolling average 6622 from 6372 last week.
Rt: 1.27 from 1.12 last week
72 deaths recorded in the last 24 hours, brought the total of pandemic victims to 16,838. Of these, 95.4% had an underlying condition and/or were aged 70 or over.
551 Covid-patients are on ventilators in hospitals from 546 a day earlier.. Their median age is 64 years, 61.3% are men. 84.2% have an underlying condition and/or are aged 70 or over.
Of the total patients on intubation, 489 (83.48%) are unvaccinated or partly vaccinated and 91 (16.52%) are fully vaccinated.
Intubated Covid-patients per age group:
0-17: 1
18-30: 20
40-64: 254
65+ : 276
3,404 have been discharged from ICUs since the pandemic began.
365 Covid-19 patients were admitted to hospitals in the last 24 hours (daily change: -12.89%). The average admission of patients with Covid-19 to hospitals over the last 7 days was 410.
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 14
Party vaccinations 65.2% of the population
Fully vaccinated: 62%
Booster shot since Sept 13: 617,571
Vaccination tracker per region in Greek here.
Geographic distribution Νovember 15
Of the 6,950 new coronavirus cases, 15 were detected at the entry gates of the country and 8 among travelers already in Greece.
The remaining cases are:
1522 Attica
1226 Thessaloniki
141 under investigation
MAP: Coronavirus Infections last 14 days per 100,000 population
More details on EODY daily bulletin in Greek here.
More information on coronavirus in Greece here.
“Thedoridou said that it looks as if vaccination against Covid-19 will be: 3 jabs plus 1 booster shot each year.”
I think it is too early to make this sort of prediction. It may be correct or it may not. We need time after a large number have received the third dose to monitor what happens and then make a decision. The countries that are most advanced with vaccination, e.g. Israel, don’t have that information yet. The information they have so far is that a third dose does boost immunity to symptomatic disease, hospitalisation and death quite massively even compared to that provided by 2 doses so is very valuable.