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Greece and 9 other countries on the “very worrying list”
The onset of the fourth wave of the coronavirus pandemic is testing the resilience of the National Health System with experts describing the borderline situation in which hospitals find themselves sending a distress signal.
The pressure on the National Health System is very significant as there is an increase in new imports and new intubations that are expected to burden the NSS even more in the coming weeks. The completeness of the available Covid-19 ICUs in the territory has reached 88% and in Thessaloniki 97%.
50% increase in new cases – 47,000 active
The data are worrying, as the number of new cases has increased by 50% in the last week and the active cases in our country have exceeded 47,000 people.
There is a significant increase in the number of tests performed, about 2% of the population is checked every day. According to the data from EODY, the average rolling positivity of the laboratory tests is about 2.2% and the positivity recorded in the targeted mass open sampling performed by EODY is significantly higher with the average weekly positivity of 3.75 %.
“There are no other possibilities, the pressure is great. “If someone comes to the intensive care unit, we have nowhere to put him,” said the director of the 2nd ICU, Nikos Kapravelos, speaking to SKAI.
At the same time, the president of EINAP, Matina Pagoni, rang the alarm bell for the seriousness of the situation. “We are at war”, he said and continued: “The situation in the hospitals is difficult, especially in Northern Greece and it is coming down centrally. These are difficult days for the medical world, there are confrontations with the private doctors who leave their clinics, I understand them, but we are in a time of war, and when we are at war we take up arms and fight, we are not separated, the pandemic must go away and return to normalcy as we did two years ago ”
ECDC: The situation in Greece and 9 other EU countries is very worrying.
The situation regarding the development of the coronavirus pandemic in our country and in 9 other countries of the European Union is characterized as “very worrying”, according to the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). At the same time, in 10 other countries the situation is characterized as “worrying”.
The European Prediction Center warns that “infections, hospitalizations and deaths are expected to rise in the next two weeks.”
Greece and 9 other countries on the “very worrying list”
Of the 27 EU countries, Greece and 9 more are in the category, which raises the greatest concern. Along with Greece on the same list are: Belgium, Poland, the Netherlands, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Hungary and Slovenia.
10 countries in the “worrying” category.
Countries in the “concern” category for the Covid-19 epidemic include Germany, Austria, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Romania and Slovakia.
Three countries are in the “moderate concern” category (France, Portugal, Cyprus) while Italy, Spain, Sweden and Malta are in the “low concern” category.
The methodology used by the ECDC for the categories of concern mixes absolute values (number of infections, hospitalizations and deaths) but also their recent development.
According to the latest projections, the number of infections and deaths is expected to increase by about 50% in the next two weeks, to reach a weekly rate of 300 new infections and 2.7 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants.
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source:- Ethnos.gr
