Daily coronavirus cases remain high also on Monday with Greece’s health authorities to have announced 36,246 confirmed cases in the past 24 hours among the regional units, Attica and Thessaloniki lead, followed by Achaia in Peloponnese and Heraklio on Crete.
Health authorities announced on Monday also 78 Covid-related deaths in the last 24 hours, while the number of intubated Covid-patients in hospitals has decreased to 615.
At the weekly Live Briefing on vaccinations, the president of the National Vaccinations Committee Professor Maria Theodoridou said that those with the booster shot are largely protected from infection with the Omicron variant, while those with just 2 doses of vaccines are not.
She cited a study conducted in the UK among 815 people.
Refiring to recent issues where Rapid tests show negative while the patient is positive on PCR tests, President of EODY Theoklis Zaoutis reassured that also Rapid tests are reliable.
He added that 70% of the infections in 5 regional units are of the Omicron variant.
Official EODY data January 3
Tests in last 24 hours:
PCR: 20,823 RAPID: 125,653
Positivity PCR+RAPID: 24.75%
Since the pandemic began, Greece has confirmed 1,294,741 infections (daily change +2.9%). In the confirmed cases of the last 7 days, 217 infections are related to travel from abroad and 1,000 to other confirmed cases.
Rolling average 30,073 from 6,615 last week.
Rt 1.27 from 0,96 last week
78 deaths recorded in the last 24 hours, brought the total of pandemic victims to 20,990*. Of these, 95.1% had an underlying condition and/or were aged 70 or over.
*2 deaths from previous days added on EODY data on Monday.
615 patients are on ventilators in hospitals, from 626 a day earlier. Their median age is 63 years and 58.9% are men. 80% have an underlying condition and/or are aged 70 or over.
Of the total in intubation, 522 (84.88%) are unvaccinated or partly vaccinated and 93 (15.12%) are fully vaccinated.
3,780 Covid-patients have been discharged from ICUs since the pandemic began.
437 Covid-19 patients were admitted to hospital in the last 24 hours (daily change: +9.25%). The average admission of patients with Covid-19 to hospitals over the last 7 days was 413.
The median age of new infections is 36 years (range: 0.2 to 106 years), while the median age of the deceased is 78 (range: 0.2 to 106 years).
Vaccinations
Stand Jan 2
Partly vaccinated 71.8%
Fully vaccinated 67.3%
Booster shot since Sept 13: 3,561,232
Geographic distribution January 3
Of the 36,246 new coronavirus cases, 38 were detected at the entry gates of the country and 13 among travelers already in Greece.
The remaining cases are:
13,104 Attica
3,856 Thessaloniki
1,133 Achaia
1,109 Heraklio
863 Larissa
693 Evia 687 Chania 643 Ioannina
595 Karditsa 568 Kozani 556 Aitoloakarnania 552 Rhodes 535 Magnisia 530 Corinth 511 Pieria
467 Viotia 444 Evros 429 Serres 403 Kavla
374 Fthiotida 363 Rethymno 357 Argolida 355 Imathia 353 Florina 337 Tikala 326 Drama 319 Arcadia
255 Lesvos 246 Pella 239 Arta 222 Xanthi 221 Thesprotia 219 Chios 297 Laconia
199 Halkidiki
187 Corfu
179Lasithi 177 Kastoria
168 Rodopi 164 Preveza
155 Kilkis
130 Zakynthos
125 Grevena 105 Lefkada
87 Fokida 82 Kos
74 Syros 70 Kefalonia
58 Kalymnos 47 Evrytania 42 Limnos 40 Ikaria
38 Samos 31 Thira
28 Naxos 26 Thassos
16 Paos 14 Tinos 13 Mykonos 12 Andros 10 Sporades
9 Milos 7 Karpathos/Kasos 3 Ithaki
989 under investigation
MAP infections per 100,000 population based on last 14 days
Jan 3 status remains constantly he same since Dec 27
Dec 26
Thank you, KTG! I hope you have had a, well earned, rest. And a lot of fun too…. This spring might be hard work (as always these days) 😉
Wish you a healthy and happy 2022! Give your cat (growing in visedom) a hug from me 🙂
thank you, Mika, all the best for you too.
“Refiring to recent issues where Rapid tests show negative while the patient is positive on PCR tests, President of EODY Theoklis Zaoutis reassured that also Rapid tests are reliable.”
The Lateral Flow test is less sensitive than the PCR test so it is completely normal that some people, with low viral loads, test negative on Lateral Flow and positive on PCR. The people most likely to pass the virus on are those with high viral loads so the Lateral Flow test is good for screening high risk people, e.g. in a work environment, because it is fast. PCR is good as a diagnostic tool where people have symptoms that may or may not be COVID.
While it is not certain, the fact that Omicron seems to be more able to infect people who are vaccinated or have had COVID before than happened with previous variants BUT they are having very mild symptoms suggests that they could have low viral loads, which could account for more negative Lateral Flow tests.