Greece health authorities announced on Thursday 19,504 coronavirus cases and 93 deaths in the past 24 hours.The number of intubated Covid-patients in hospitals stands at 484.
4,305 people has died due to Covid-complications from Jan 1 until Feb 17, 2022.
Αt the weekly Live Briefing on Thursday, health experts said that the pandemic withdraws in slow pace.
An improvement of the so-called “hard factors” (deaths, intubations) has been recorded and new hospitalizations including those of children and teenagers have decreased by 13 percent.
However, infections increase has been recorded on the islands of Kea, Karpathos, Thassos and Syros as well as in the regional units of Kilkis and Fokida.
Deputy health minister Mina Gaga said that a total of 2,653 applications for the administration of anti-viral pills have been submitted, however, 322 applications have been cancelled by the patients themselves due to concerns of the side-effects.
Official EODY data February 17
Tests in last 24 hours
PCR 25,994 RAPID 279,389
Positivity PCR and RAPID: 6.39%
Since the pandemic began, Greece has confirmed 2,255,421 infections (daily change: +0.9%). In the confirmed cases of the last 7 days, 363 infections are related to travel from abroad and 2,187 to other confirmed cases.
Rolling average: 17,962 from 18.023 last week.
Rt: 0.99 from 0.98 last week.
93 deaths recorded in the last 24 hours and another 1 from previous days added on today’s EODY data, brought the the total of pandemic victims to 25,095. Of these, 95% had an underlying condition and/or were aged 70 or over.
484 Covid-patients from 485 a day earlier are on ventilators in hospitals. Their median age is 66 years, 63% are men and 86% have an underlying condition and/or are aged 70 or over.
4,180 have been discharged from ICUs since the pandemic began.
375 Covid-19 patients were admitted to hospital in the last 24 hours (daily change: -16.19%), while the daily average of admissions over the last 7 days was 377.
The median age of new infections is 35 years (range: 0.2 to 106 years), while the median age of the deceased is 78 (range: 0.2 to 106 years).
VACCINATIONS
Stand February 6
Partly vaccinated: 74.8%
Full vaccinated: 70.5%
Updates on Vaccination program in Greece here in vaccination tracker (in Greek)
Geographic distribution February 17
Of the total 19,504 new coronavirus infections, 45 were detected at the entry gates of the country and 8 among travelers already in Greece.
The remaining cases are:
6062 Attica
2112 Thessaloniki
941 Heraklio
845 Achaia
515 Larissa
403 Ioannina
402 Chania
389 Messinia
348 Evia
316 Aitoloakarnania
269 Ilia
266 Magnesia
262 Corinth
251 Rhodes
248 Pella
234 Corfu
231 Evros
228 Trikala
222 Kavala
217 Kozani
212 Lesvos
206 Imathia
201 Rodopi
201 Fthiotida
192 Xanthi
178 Kilkis
167 Serres
159 Viotia
154 Pieria
154 Halkidiki
143 Argolida
142 Chios
141 Arcadia
140 Lassithi
140 Samos
130 Rethymnon
124 Karditsa
124 Preveza
118 Drama
107 Arta
106 Kos
98 Laconia
93 Kalymnos
91 Kastoria
84 Zakynthos
69 Thesprotia
68 Kefallinias
59 Naxos
58 Lefkada
57 Mykonos
46 Florina
44 Θήρας
44 Φωκίδας
37 Grevena
34 Syros
31 Thassos
27 Lemnos
25 Karpathos-Kasos
25 Paros
19 Keas-Kythnos
14 Andros
12 Ikaria
10 Tinos
10 Sporades
7 Evrytania
4 Ithaca
3 Milos
3 Mt Athos
379 under investigation
MAP last 14 days infections per 100,000 population
** EODY daily bullet in Greek here
More information on coronavirus and restrictions in Greece here on KTG
