The Committee of the Ministry of Health suspended the previously issued decision on the opening of economic activities, since the situation with the coronavirus in Greece has deteriorated again in recent days.
According to the information, the members of the commission say “no” to the opening of shopping centers and beauty salons. It seems that the decision of the experts, which is expected today, will provide for the continuation of the isolation regime with SMS and the restriction regime, and the easing of measures will be postponed for at least a week.
The same information says that the reopening of the frontistiria, primary and secondary schools was not even discussed.
Such a decision of the commission was to be expected, against the backdrop of a difficult epidemiological situation and the unbearable pressure that the country’s health care system experiences when hospitals are in a state of time pressure. The situation worsened after yesterday’s double record of intubated and total deaths, which reached 819 and 9239, respectively, and another 104 of our fellow citizens died in just one day.
However, the decision on the course of measures will be taken by the government, which insists on easing restrictions and on taking risks, despite the difficult situation.
Today’s warning from the US researcher Georgios Pavlakis about the “long Holy Week” is typical. “Each discovery is a risk to aggravate the situation,” the professor said, noting that only if the number of cases falls by half, to 2,000 out of 4,000, there is hope for a safer Easter and, above all, a good summer.
On April 15, it was reported that the National Public Health Organization announced 3,833 new cases of Covid-19 in Greece.
As a reminder, most of the cases reported by EODY in one day were announced on March 30, 2021, when 4,340 cases were identified in 24 hours. The maximum number of deaths due to the virus per day was recorded on Saturday 28 November, when 121 patients died.
The data presented relate to cases of epidemiological surveillance of the disease of the new coronavirus (COVID19) based on data transmitted to EODY and registered before April 15, 2021 (time 15:00). New laboratory confirmed cases reported in the last 24 hours amount to 3,833, of which 16 were identified after entry checks.
The total number of cases is 308,006 (daily change + 1.3%), of which 51.3% are men. Based on confirmed cases in the last 7 days, 60 are considered to be related to travel from abroad, and 2636 with an already known case.
The number of patients who underwent intubation was 819 people (62.9% of men). Their average age is 68. 84.9% have an underlying disease and / or are 70 years of age or older. Since the start of the pandemic, 1,925 patients have been discharged from intensive care units. The number of new Covid-19 patients admitted to hospitals in the country is 526 (daily change -6.41%).
The average number of patients hospitalized within seven days is 515. The average age of patients is 44 years (from 0.2 to 106 years), and the average age of death is 79 years (from 0.2 to 106 years).
Samples Tested: From January 1, 2020 to today, in laboratories that conduct tests for the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) and which systematically indicate the total number of samples tested, a total of 4,420,307 clinical samples were tested, at that time as the EODY divisions that perform Ag rapid tests tested 2,893,942 samples.
The seven-day average was 53,940 spot checks. EODY Mass Sampling: On April 14, 2021, 124 sampling activities were conducted by EODY Mobile Health Teams (KOMYs), with 16,800 Ag rapid tests performed and 354 positive (2.11%) positives.
National Network for Genomic Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 Mutations.
Genomic analysis was completed on 1,212 samples taken from February 3 to April 3, 2021. Of the 1212 control samples, a total of 957 mutant strains were identified. Concern – VOC) and 140 samples with investigated strains (Variants Under Investigation – VUI). Of the 957 samples with mutants of particular interest, 950 were associated with the B.1.1.7 / UK mutation (variant VOC_202012), and 7 with the B.1.351 / South Africa mutation (variant 501.V2). And out of 140 samples with VUI strains, 139 were associated with strain B.1.1.318 (Variant_E484K), and 1 with strain B.1.1 (Variant_E484K) (Table 3).
Since the launch of the National Network for the Genomic Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 Mutations to date, a total of 7,954 household case samples have been tested for mutations in the area. Of all domestic samples, the three most common mutations are the line B.1.1.7 / UK (Variant VOC_202012), 62.3%, followed by B.1.1.318 (Variant_E484K) with a percentage of 3.9% and B.. 1.351 / South Africa (Option 501.V2) with a percentage of 0.8% (Table 4).
In addition, 80 strains with mutations were isolated from imported samples, of which 78 belong to the B.1.1.7 / UK mutation (Variant VOC_202012), and 2 to the B.1.351 / South Africa mutation. (Option 501.V2). Table 3: Absolute and relative frequency of positive samples for SARS-CoV-2 mutation by strain type since the establishment of the National Network for Genomic Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 Mutations to the present day.
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