Sarigiannis: The epidemiological burden in Thessaloniki is tripled (VIDEO)
Many areas of northern Greece have vaccination coverage for 40%, underlined the professor of Environmental Engineering, Demosthenes Sarigiannis, speaking on the television station Mega, notes that at the moment Thessaloniki has three times the epidemiological load, cases per 100,000 inhabitants, compared to Attica. “This is not normal.”
According to Mr. Sarigiannis, October will be uncertain as to the course of the pandemic, while by the middle of the month the daily cases will be more than 4,000. In addition, he estimated that by the end of the year 44% of new cases will be children. “We are now in 30% of cases. “If the vaccination does not go ahead, 74,000 cases could be children by the end of the year.” “Unvaccinated adults should not take children by the throat.”
“Epidemic of the unvaccinated”
For his part, the professor of Pulmonology, Ioannis Kioumis, stated that the course of the coronavirus in Greece is evolving into an “epidemic of unvaccinated people”. According to the professor, 90% “or even more” of those hospitalized in the ICU of northern Greece are unvaccinated. “They are putting pressure on the health system, with the fact that extensions can have that pressure.”
He himself seemed demanding for the course of vaccinations in the country, while he collaborated to explain that the vaccination coverage in northern Greece fell into a quagmire, talking about a “double face”.
“It was a mass turnout for vaccinations in the first phase, which gave rise to optimism that it got the messages from the first waves. It then appeared that there was a portion of the population willing to be vaccinated, but they were soon offered to the mass of fellow citizens who had hesitations, phobias or even those who refused the pandemic and the vaccine. Thus, from the first places of vaccination, Thessaloniki and many other cities of Northern Greece, show significant hysteria in vaccination rates.
Source: megatv.com