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Today, Sotiris Tsiodras from the Ministry of Health announced that we have 22 new cases of the corona SARS-CoV-2 in our country.
The total number of recorded cases is now 2192, of which 56.2% were men.
72 patients are intubated. Finally, the representative of the Ministry of Health announced 1 new death from the coronavirus in Greece that raises the total number of deaths to 102.
Restrictions over the Easter period will be tighter. The announcement that people will not be able to travel from house to house visiting friends and relatives during Easter.
On a positive note Greece is on a good path in regards to combating the virus. As the professor of Infectious Diseases explained, it shows the rate at which the virus can be transmitted to the population, based on the number of cases, and this is because it “captures” how many can be contracted by a carrier of the virus. R2 indicator means that each carrier can transmit the virus to another 2 people.
“In recent days, there has been a gradual reduction in the number of cases being treated and the number of serious cases being recorded. The famous R0 index seems to be declining in Greece, “he said.
He added: “We have not seen a sharp rise, the health system has been less pressured thanks to the efforts of all of us. Now in our country the R0 is below 1. This means that the disease is being reduced and eventually disappears “.
R0 refers to how many other people will catch the disease from a single infected person, in a population that hasn’t been exposed to the disease before.
If R0 is below one, the epidemic eventually peters out. Above one, it will grow, possibly exponentially.
Early on in the Covid-19 outbreak, different teams of researchers came up with varying estimates of R0, with most ranging between 2 or 3. Some put the number lower, like the World Health Organization’s estimates of 1.4 to 2.5.
