Greece’s health authorities announced on Tuesday 21,121 coronavirus cases and 54 deaths in the last 24 hours. The number of intubated Covid-patients has decreased further to 365.
Note the much fewer tests due to the long weekend and Clean Monday, March 7.
March 7:
8,639 coronavirus cases; 52 deaths, 370 intubations
Positivity rate of 89,327 PCR+RAPID tests: 9.67%
EODY data March 8
Tests past 24 hours
PCR 10,384 RAPID 123,603
Positivity PCR+RAPID: 15.76%
Since the pandemic began, Greece has confirmed 2,538,168 infections (daily change: +0.9%). In the confirmed cases of the last 7 days, 183 infections are related to travel from abroad and 1,402 to other confirmed cases.
Rolling average 14,196 from 14,607 last week.
54 deaths recorded in the last 24 hours and 3 more deaths from previous days incorporated in today’s data brought the total of pandemic victims to 26,303. Of these, 95.1% had an underlying condition and/or were aged 70 or over.
Deaths per age-group
365 patients are on ventilators in hospitals. Their median age is 68 years and 88.2% have an underlying condition and/or are aged 70 or over.
Of the total in ventilation, 247 (67.67%) are unvaccinated or partly vaccinated and 118 (32.33%) are fully vaccinated.
4,307 have been discharged from ICUs since the pandemic began.
245 Covid-19 patients were admitted to hospital in the last 24 hours (daily change: -3.92%). The average daily admission of patients with Covid-19 to hospitals over the last 7 days was 275.
The median age of new infections is 36 years (range: 0.2 to 106 years), while the median age of the deceased is 79 (range: 0.2 to 106 years).
Geographic distribution March 8
Of the 21,121 new coronavirus infections, 29 were detected at entry points and 7 among travelers already in the country.
The remaining case are:
7561 Attica
1984 Thessaloniki
1268 Heraklio
682 Achaia
510 Under investigation
463 Evia
454 Magnesia
438 Larissa
436 Kozani
355 Ioannina
336 Aitoloakarnania
320 Chania
299 Messinia
295 Ilia
286 Corinth
272 Trikala
217 Fthiotida
214 Rethymno
202 Kavala
202 Pella
192 Rhodes
189 Viotia
189 Drama
182 Argolida
175 Halkidiki
173 Xanthi
168 Evros
167 Serres
166 Lassithi
142 Imathia
142 Laconia
137 Chios
136 Lesvos
127 Karditsa
127 Corfu
124 Preveza
123 Arcadia
112 Kos
109 Pieria
108 Kilkis
102 Kefalonia
100 Arta
87 Florina
86 Evrytania
80 Zakynthos
71 Samos
69 Kalymnos
64 Lefkada
63 Andros
60 Kastoria
59 Thesprotia
59 Rodopi
43 Naxos
42 Fokida
39 Paros
38 Grevena
31 Sporades
30 Μilos
29 Thira
28 Lemnos
27 Karpathos-Kasos
26 Syros
22 Mykonos
17 Thassos
12 Tinos
11 Ikaria
4 Ithaca
3 Kea-Kythnos
1 Mt Athos
MAP Infections in the past 14 days per 100,000 population
For more details incl the geographic distribution check at EODY daily bulletin in Greek here.
More information on coronavirus and restrictions in Greece here on KTG.
PS Due to the war in Ukraine, KTG cannot currently post the lengthy Coronavirus bulletins on daily basis as it has done since February 2020.
However, you will be always informed in changes regarding Covid-restrictions and updated Covid-maps.
KTG, you have done a great job during the pandemic time! It is not over yet but, hopefully, declining. Thank you so much for your hard and probably somewhat depressing work!
indeed – depressing. thanks for your appreciation.